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Dealing with fragile C libraries (e.g. MySQL) from Haskell
I spent some time today trying to talk to a MySQL database server from a piece of middleware I'm writing in Haskell. You might think that talking to a database server would be easy, but it turned out to be…
Converting a Mercurial tree repeatedly with files removed
Here's a useful little tip if you need to use hg convert to generate a stripped-down copy of a Mercurial repository. For instance, maybe we have a tree that someone committed a large file to by accident, or perhaps someone…
Posted in mercurial
GHC I/O manager progress: ready to merge, and paper accepted!
Thanks to diligent work by Johan, our new I/O manager is ready to merge into the main GHC tree. All the tests pass, and it’s performing well. I’ll post an update when it gets merged into HEAD. We also heard…
Posted in haskell
Sightings of the GHC event manager in the wild
After a few months of blissfully doing precious little hacking in our spare time, Johan and I have returned to work on the new event manager for GHC. I spent the past few days writing a paper about the motivation,…
Posted in haskell, open source
