[Haskell-cafe] Status of Acid-State and IxSet

Andrea Vezzosi sanzhiyan at gmail.com
Fri May 29 20:17:18 UTC 2015


Oh, sorry, your mail was from today as well, so github was the
upstream, it's been a while since I've been on -cafe and thought this
was an older thread.

All the best,
Andrea

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Andrea Vezzosi <sanzhiyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> acid-state is still alive and kicking (and better be since hackage uses it).
>> In fact, there is a GSoC project to add replication support this summer I
>> believe.
>>
>> ixset is still supported. We submitted a patch upstream to syb-with-class
>> but have not heard back. Our patched version is here:
>
> Where is this upstream? Since I haven't seen any patches my way until
> today I guess there's some other place where I'm not checking.
>
> Anyhow there's a new version on hackage now which builds on ghc-7.10.
>
> I would gladly transfer maintainership of syb-with-class though.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrea
>
>>
>> https://github.com/seereason/syb-with-class
>>
>> Nix patches syb-with-class by default -- which is nice ;)
>>
>> If you do not have legacy code to support, I highly recommend checking out
>> ixset-typed. It is very much like ixset -- but does a better job catching
>> errors though the type system. IxSet is a little too loose with the types
>> for no real reason resulting in avoidable runtime errors.
>>
>> - jeremy
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:05 PM, JP Moresmau <jpmoresmau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, for a project I decided to use Acid-State and IxSet, and was pretty
>>> happy with them. I enjoyed working with Haskell structures for storing and
>>> querying data, and my data could fit in memory. However, now I've moved to
>>> GHC 7.10, and for example syb-with-class, a dependency of ixset, does not
>>> build with template-haskell 2.10. So I'm wondering, are these projects still
>>> alive and kicking? Are if I want some memory based storage and indexing,
>>> should I look at some other projects (maybe VCache
>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vcache). Or is it just bad timing and GHC
>>> 7.10 compatible versions of these libraries are in the works?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> JP Moresmau
>>> http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.com/
>>>
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