[ANN] Twitter Client

[Chris Eidhof]

Hey everyone,

I was tired of all those graphical Twitter clients that aren't usable  
from my Terminal, so I wrote my own. It's still very much alpha, but  
comments or improvements are more than welcome. You can install it by  
downloading the twitter-package from hackage.

In order to get it to work, create a file "~/.twitter" with the  
contents username:password, and you should be set.

The source code isn't polished yet, but it makes heavy use of the new  
curl, json and xml libraries from Galois, so it might be interesting  
to browse the source.

-chris

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[Gwern Branwen]

On 2008.05.09 16:23:03 +0200, Chris Eidhof <chris@...> scribbled 0.6K characters:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I was tired of all those graphical Twitter clients that aren't usable from
> my Terminal, so I wrote my own. It's still very much alpha, but comments or
> improvements are more than welcome. You can install it by downloading the
> twitter-package from hackage.
>
> In order to get it to work, create a file "~/.twitter" with the contents
> username:password, and you should be set.
>
> The source code isn't polished yet, but it makes heavy use of the new curl,
> json and xml libraries from Galois, so it might be interesting to browse
> the source.
>
> -chris

For those interested, the links is <http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/twitter-0.1>. Hackage reports a build-failure, but I think that particular problem is because of Curl's Haddock failure.

That said, I did run into a build problem:

---

gwern@localhost:4089~/twitter-0.1>cabal-install twitter [ 3:30PM]
'twitter-0.1' is cached.
Configuring twitter-0.1...
Preprocessing executables for twitter-0.1...
Building twitter-0.1...

./Twitter.hs:3:7:
    Could not find module `GUI.Terminal':
      Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
twitter-0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
exit: ExitFailure 1

---

Is GUI.Terminal some special Mac haskell package I wouldn't have on Linux?

--
gwern
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[Don Stewart-2]

chris:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I was tired of all those graphical Twitter clients that aren't usable  
> from my Terminal, so I wrote my own. It's still very much alpha, but  
> comments or improvements are more than welcome. You can install it by  
> downloading the twitter-package from hackage.
>
> In order to get it to work, create a file "~/.twitter" with the  
> contents username:password, and you should be set.
>
> The source code isn't polished yet, but it makes heavy use of the new  
> curl, json and xml libraries from Galois, so it might be interesting  
> to browse the source.

Great! Perhaps we could use it as an annotated tutorial for the libs?
Put the source on the wiki with comments?

-- Don
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[Chris Eidhof]

On 9 mei 2008, at 21:31, Gwern Branwen wrote:

> On 2008.05.09 16:23:03 +0200, Chris Eidhof <chris@...>  
> scribbled 0.6K characters:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I was tired of all those graphical Twitter clients that aren't  
>> usable from
>> my Terminal, so I wrote my own. It's still very much alpha, but  
>> comments or
>> improvements are more than welcome. You can install it by  
>> downloading the
>> twitter-package from hackage.
>
> For those interested, the links is <http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/twitter-0.1 
> >. Hackage reports a build-failure, but I think that particular  
> problem is because of Curl's Haddock failure.
>
> That said, I did run into a build problem:
>
> Is GUI.Terminal some special Mac haskell package I wouldn't have on  
> Linux?

No, I was a bit sloppy with casing of the directory-names. On my Mac  
it was called Gui, but it should have been called GUI. I uploaded a  
changed package, it should build fine now.

Thanks!
-chris
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