Erlang-style Distributed Haskell

It was proposed by Frank Huch at ICFP'99. You can get the corresponding paper here.

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

1. A simple 'distributed' counter
2. A graphical peer-to-peer Talk-application using gtk+hs
3. 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!)
• a unixish environment (please send us a note if you test this on Win32!)

Download

• The source-archive via SVN (also get haskell/network
• 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 an old version of hsparser, we don't think it can handle all of ghc's new constructs. Anyway, here are the diffs.