[Haskell-cafe] Message passing library

[Christopher Allen]

The problems get worse after you've successfully built it.

Someone will probably pipe up to say, "it worked for me!", which is great,
but I think Corentin isn't looking for first-pass functionality here.
Something that has a better story for error handling is probably part of
what's wanted. I don't know if Cloud Haskell or Courier will fit the bill,
but I'm pretty sure ZMQ won't unless Corentin is already an expert in
bashing ZMQ into place.

If that were the case, why would they need to ask the mailing list for
suggestions? They'd have a tool they already know well and could use for
message-passing'ish over the network.



On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Tikhon Jelvis <tikhon at jelv.is> wrote:

> As far as ZeroMQ goes, it made it difficult for me to build IHaskell both
> times I've tried. It's not insurmountable, but it is a bit of a pain.
>
> If you do end up using it, some clear (maybe even copy-pastable)
> instructions on how to install and check the C library itself on different
> systems would go a long way.
>
> I don't think it's bad enough to rule it out a priori, but it's something
> to keep in mind.
> On Jul 20, 2015 9:27 AM, "Christopher Allen" <cma at bitemyapp.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe the primary contenders would be Cloud Haskell [1] and Courier
>> [2].
>>
>> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/distributed-process and
>> http://haskell-distributed.github.io/
>>
>> [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/courier
>>
>> Cloud Haskell is probably more widely used. I don't know if they're
>> leveraging Static Pointers yet, but the feature was motivated in part by
>> their needs.
>>
>> We mostly use Pipes, TCP sockets, and Binary but I think you're looking
>> for something more reliable. Probably someone will recommend ZeroMQ. I'd
>> steer clear of ZeroMQ unless you have an intimate understanding of it and
>> how to work around its quirks.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Corentin Dupont <
>> corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> what would you recommend as a message passing library?
>>> Essentially, I would to replace this library
>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/eprocess
>>> by something more mainstream.
>>> It is used in Hint-server:
>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hint-server
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Corentin
>>>
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