Re: new hs-ports: devel/hs-echo, devel/hs-edit-distance

2018-01-12 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 09:23:17PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > If people are upset because of hs-echo (which *is* stupid and exists > > only because some standard Haskell functions don't work on Windows), > > I could also try to patch cabal-install to not make use of it and > > use hGetEcho/

Re: new hs-ports: devel/hs-echo, devel/hs-edit-distance

2018-01-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/01/12 22:15, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Hi, > > asking again wether it's ok to import those. For test-building, > you'll need the ghc update linked below and the hs-random diff at > the end of this mail. I think, with those two new ports I could > start the big haskell churn and commit ghc-

Re: new hs-ports: devel/hs-echo, devel/hs-edit-distance

2018-01-12 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi, asking again wether it's ok to import those. For test-building, you'll need the ghc update linked below and the hs-random diff at the end of this mail. I think, with those two new ports I could start the big haskell churn and commit ghc-8.2.2 and about 110 hs-ports which also need to be touch

Re: new hs-ports: devel/hs-echo, devel/hs-edit-distance

2017-12-27 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 06:18:09PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: > devel/hs-edit-distance: > > COMMENT = Levenshtein edit distances > > DESCR: > > Optimized edit distances for fuzzy matching, including Levenshtein > and restricted Damerau-Levenshtein algorithms. Damned! I missed a d

new hs-ports: devel/hs-echo, devel/hs-edit-distance

2017-12-27 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi, for updating devel/cabal-install to version 2.0.0.1 (which is probably the best version for use with ghc-8.2.2), two new hs-ports are needed: devel/hs-echo: COMMENT = cross-platform echoing terminal input DESCR: The base library exposes the hGetEcho and hSetEcho functions for