Announcing decision diagrams

[Josef Svenningsson]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>  Yes, we typically expect 'easy' instances of the problem. Though we
>  would like to be able to handle large easy instances too, like trying to
>  install the latest version of every package on hackage simultaneously.
>
Yeah, that kind of benchmark makes me a bit nervous but is should
definetely be a good stress test.

>  Perhaps we should have a go with profiling and see if there is anything
>  obvious.
>
Absolutely.

>  Actually it didn't get funded as a GSoC project but Maciej Wos is
>  looking at this problem for his 4th year project. As you say, the design
>  space is very wide so I would not want to discourage you or anyone from
>  looking at it.
>
Ah, I didn't know it was denied funding. Too bad. Good to hear Maciej
is still interested in working on it.

>  > I haven't looked into how to use this package in cabal-install yet,
>  > but I suspect it will be fairly easy. I'd appreciate any comments and
>  > help on that though since I'm not familiar with the cabal-install code
>  > base yet.
>
>  I want to make the resolver a bit more easily replaceable.
>
>  [Lot's of useful information snipped]

Thanks for the info Duncan. I'll be looking into this but don't expect
super rapid progress. Where do I send patches?

Cheers,

Josef