[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] IHaskell -- Haskell for Interactive Computing (via IPython)
Carter Schonwald
carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 01:48:41 UTC 2013
its worth remarking that theres some promising work from this years haskell
GSOC that attacks the start of the GHC / haskell note book problem from
another angle
paste.hskll.org :)
fyi all
-Carter
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Morten Olsen Lysgaard
<morten at lysgaard.no>wrote:
> What a wonderful idea Andrew!
>
> I've always felt that Haskell has much better properties as a notebook
> like language than a state full one such as Python and now we will
> have the chance to show it.
> I hope this will spark an interest in interactive computations with
> Haskell. Myself I would be interested in outputting symbolic math as
> Latex. In haskell the math would be represented as an AST. How would I
> go about adding a Latex output for an AST describing mathematical
> expressions to IHaskell?
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Andrew Gibiansky
> <andrew.gibiansky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you for the correction, Ivan. I've pushed that change to
> > IHaskell.cabal so that this doesn't trip anyone up in the future.
> >
> > IHaskell assumes that when you run 'cabal install', your IHaskell
> executable
> > will be on the $PATH. (In order to run 'IHaskell setup', both your shell
> and
> > IHaskell itself must be able to detect where the IHaskell executable is,
> > because it needs to put that information into the IPython configuration
> it
> > generates.)
> >
> > -- Andrew
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Triwanto Simanjuntak
> > <simanjuntak.triwanto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Andrew,
> >>
> >> The solution from Ivan made the installation of IHaskell successful.
> >> However when creating IPython profile by invoking, "IHaskell setup",
> >> gave error, "IHaskell: command not found". Is it because the
> >> installation didn't make IHaskell on $Path ?
> >>
> >> Triwanto
> >> simanjuntak.triwanto at gmail.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> >> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On 23 October 2013 16:53, Andrew Gibiansky <
> andrew.gibiansky at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> Triwanto,
> >> >>
> >> >> IHaskell depends on the 'uuid' package and requires version 1.2.*.
> >> >> Check to
> >> >> make sure you have uuid installed. I build it with 1.2.13, and it
> looks
> >> >> like
> >> >> the most recent one is 1.2.14, which should also have that module
> [1].
> >> >> So,
> >> >> before building, make sure you have uuid==1.2.* installed - I'm sort
> of
> >> >> new
> >> >> to cabal packaging, so perhaps my dependencies are not specified
> quite
> >> >> correctly, but that is the issue that message seems to point to.
> >> >>
> >> >> Let me know how it goes. The full list of dependencies from the
> *.cabal
> >> >> file
> >> >> is as follows, in case you have other problems:
> >> >> build-depends: base ==4.6.*,
> >> >> zeromq3-haskell ==0.5.*,
> >> >> aeson ==0.6.*,
> >> >> MissingH ==1.2.*,
> >> >> basic-prelude ==0.3.*,
> >> >> classy-prelude ==0.6.*,
> >> >> bytestring ==0.10.*,
> >> >> uuid ==1.2.*,
> >> >> containers ==0.5.*,
> >> >> haskell-src-exts ==1.14.*,
> >> >> ghc ==7.6.*,
> >> >> ghc-paths ==0.1.*,
> >> >> random ==1.0.*,
> >> >> strict ==0.3.*,
> >> >> shelly ==1.3.*,
> >> >> text ==0.11.*
> >> >>
> >> >> Note that zeromq3-haskell will require zmq3 installed, and in saucy
> >> >> that is
> >> >> provided via 'apt-get install libzmq3-dev', I think.
> >> >
> >> > The .V4 module only seems to have appeared in version 1.2.6; as such
> >> > you'll need to change the appropriate line to "uuid >= 1.2.6 && < 1.3"
> >> > (assuming you have indeed tested and found that your code won't work
> >> > with the 1.3.x versions).
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Andrew
> >> >>
> >> >> [1]
> >> >>
> >> >>
> http://haddocks.fpcomplete.com/fp/7.4.2/20130922-179/uuid/Data-UUID-V4.html
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Triwanto Simanjuntak
> >> >> <simanjuntak.triwanto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Andrew,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I tried to install IHaskell on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy 64 bit) and
> >> >>> recieved
> >> >>> the following error
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Resolving dependencies...
> >> >>> Configuring IHaskell-0.1.0.0...
> >> >>> Building IHaskell-0.1.0.0...
> >> >>> Preprocessing executable 'IHaskell' for IHaskell-0.1.0.0...
> >> >>>
> >> >>> IHaskell/Message/UUID.hs:10:8:
> >> >>> Could not find module `Data.UUID.V4'
> >> >>> Perhaps you meant
> >> >>> Data.UUID.V1 (from uuid-1.2.3)
> >> >>> Data.UUID.V3 (from uuid-1.2.3)
> >> >>> Data.UUID.V5 (from uuid-1.2.3)
> >> >>> Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> >> >>> Failed to install IHaskell-0.1.0.0
> >> >>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> >> >>> IHaskell-0.1.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception
> was:
> >> >>> ExitFailure 1
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Any idea how to solve it?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Thanks,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Triwanto
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:32:10 AM UTC+7, Andrew Gibiansky
> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Hey everyone!
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I'm excited to announce the initial release of IHaskell, a Haskell
> >> >>>> language kernel for IPython:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> http://gibiansky.github.io/IHaskell
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> IHaskell allows IPython to communicate with the kernel and evaluate
> >> >>>> Haskell code. This enables using IPython interfaces such as
> console,
> >> >>>> qtconsole, and most importantly, IPython notebook with Haskell. The
> >> >>>> IPython
> >> >>>> Notebook supports image, HTML, and LaTeX output, which enables
> things
> >> >>>> such
> >> >>>> as Javascript viewers for complex data structures or embedded
> graphs
> >> >>>> and
> >> >>>> makes it a great platform for interactive computing.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> You can take a look at the code and install instructions here:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> A general overview of the architecture is available as well:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> http://andrew.gibiansky.com/blog/ipython/ipython-kernels/
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Contributing: IHaskell is a very young project, but one that I
> think
> >> >>>> would make a great contribution to the Haskell community. There's
> >> >>>> still tons
> >> >>>> and tons left to do before it's on par with what IPython notebook
> is
> >> >>>> capable
> >> >>>> of, so if you're at all interested in contributing, please get in
> >> >>>> touch!
> >> >>>> I've tried to keep everything well-documented and readable, but I
> >> >>>> will also
> >> >>>> be happy to answer questions about the code myself.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> If you find any bugs or edge cases or installation difficulties,
> >> >>>> please
> >> >>>> send me an email or create a Github issue for it!
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Thanks,
> >> >>>> -- Andrew Gibiansky
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>
> >> >>
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> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> >> > Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> >> > http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
> >
> >
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