[Haskell-cafe] Hot-Swap with Haskell

[austin seipp]

Sorry Andy! CC'ing to the rest of -cafe in case anybody notices (I
need to stop haskelling so early in the morning...)

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:59 AM, austin seipp <as at 0xff.ath.cx> wrote:
> You also may like one project I wrote, an IRC bot that used hs-plugins
> to do hot code reloading (only works on GHC 6.8.) Inspired by
> lambdabot, it could swap the entire running program as well as its own
> plugins, on the fly and maintain state pretty successfully. I haven't
> touched the source code in a long time - it was one of my first bigger
> Haskell projects after reading Dons paper about yi. I tried a bunch of
> things with various versions of it.
>
> If I wrote the code again today (providing plugins worked) it would
> likely be 1/10th the size and more manageable as I have become much
> better at Haskell, but oh well. Looking over it now though, most of
> the code is pretty simple. :)
>
> http://code.haskell.org/infinity/src/
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bartek Ćwikłowski <paczesiowa at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello Andy,
>>>
>>> 2010/7/16 Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> There are some problems with re-compile solution:
>>>>
>>>> 1) You can't save *all* state with some FFI code, such as gtk2hs, you
>>>> can't save state of GTK+ widget. You will lost some state after
>>>> re-launch new entry.
>>>
>>> For my 2008 GSOC application I wrote a demo app that used hot code
>>> reloading and it maintained gtk state just fine. The code (and video)
>>> is available at http://paczesiowa.dw.pl/ , it worked in ghc 6.8 and
>>> needed hs-plugins, so it won't work now, but the approach should work.
>> Wow, thanks for your hint, i will wait dons fix hs-plugins then try this
>> cool feature..
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  -- Andy
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