Distributed Haskell

Welcome to Distributed Haskell, a package for developing robust distributed Haskell applications for open system using a mechanism much similar to that in Erlang.

Features

Erlang style communication using nodes and pids for sending data deriving (Show,Read)
Concurrency (using Haskell's Concurrent module)
A preprocessor for easy program creation from .dhs files (desugars <!> & receive)
A couple of example programs including Dish, the Distributed Haskell Shell for testing your Distributed Haskell programs.
Written entirely in Literate Haskell :-)

Examples

A simple 'distributed' counter
A graphical peer-to-peer Talk-application using gtk+hs
A small single-threaded database to show the concepts of linking and receiveAfter


    Requirements
    
      a recent version of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler (ghc-4.08 or better required!)
	
	  Although Distributed Haskell will compile under ghc-4.06, we recommend getting 4.08.1 or better as we discovered some bugs which got fixed on the way.
	
      
      a unixish environment (please send us a note if you test this on Win32!)
    
    Download
    The archive contains a recent version of Distributed Haskell, including a couple of demonstration programs.
    
      The source-archive
      The preprocessor currently doesn't have all the features it should, actually almost the only thing it does is expanding receive & receive after blocks. As it is based on hsparser, we don't think it can handle all of ghc愀 new constructs. Anyway, here are the diffs.
    

    Future work
    
       Provide a function similar to Erlang愀 monitorNode
       Try different network protocols like UDP or MPI
    
    
    Volker Stolz


Last modified: Wed Jan 31 16:25:39 CET 2001