November 2008 - arch-haskell

Near past, present & future
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hi guys, As some of you may have noticed (perhaps with some pain), ghc-6.10.1 has been in testing for over a week now. Some performance regressions have been noticed, and some packages fail to build on it (most due to trivial problems). That's why it won't be coming to extra too soon. Nevertheless, I'm using it as my main platform for development, and it works well. Presently, the next big thing will be the Haskell Platform, which is basically a bundle of important packages. We will try to get the packages in it to extra, with a "haskell-platform" group defined. So pacman -S haskell-platform should get you all the goodies now and forever. All this is good. Now for a bit of controversy. I'm not very happy about how AUR works for us. We get good PKGBUILDs and rather painless installation through yaourt, but it feels quite clumsy to me. For at least the following reasons: 1) When we update ghc, there's no good way to update all the packages in AUR that depend on it. Best way to cleanup is pacman -Rc cabal-install, which kinda works but... And if I go back to the other ghc version (like I often did when playing with 6.8.2 and 6.10.1), my old packages are lost. 2) Pacman just doesn't support the sort of versioning we'd need for this. By principle. 3) yaourt often builds dependencies twice. Perhaps just a simple bug in yaourt. There's a simple solution to all these problems: for packages outside the Haskell Platform, we start using cabal-install. This has worked for me very well, and I'm not sure if I see why we should have Arch packages for everything. Of course also we would have some higher profile stuff in extra (like darcs) and community (like xmonad). Any feelings? Rest assured, I'm not gonna go at this blindly. --vk (dons an asbestos suit)

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Arch Haskell News: Nov 23 2008
by Don Stewart 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

News about Haskell on Arch Linux * Arch now has 734 Haskell packages now * That’s an increase of 29 new packages in the last 8 days! * 3.6 new Haskell releases are occuring each day. Noteworthy, * haskell-hledger-0.2: “A ledger-compatible text-based accounting tool.” * gitit-0.3.1: “Wiki using HAppS, git, and pandoc.” * lhc-20081121: “Lhc Haskell Compiler” * haskell-hosc-0.6: “Haskell Open Sound Control” * haskell-flickr-0.3.2: “Haskell binding to the Flickr API” * haskell-delicious-0.3.2: “Accessing the del.icio.us APIs from Haskell (v2)” * haskell-mediawiki 0.2.3: “Interfacing with the MediaWiki API” * darcs-2.1.2.2: “a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system” Full update list, http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/arch-haskell-news-nov-23-2008/ -- Don

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introduction
by brad clawsie 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 since this list looks small i figured i should introduce myself after joining. i'm brad, using arch for a while now (coming from freebsd), and an intermediate-level haskeller for a couple of years now. if there is anything i can do to assist haskell development on arch (testing etc), feel free to let me know -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkg7mAACgkQxRg3RkRK91NF6ACfUHqo3i3/p9niwy4/S+6gSZ8O nJQAmwZUgrQz0yInehP4TFjqwk+OPAPw =tt9h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Arch Haskell News: Nov 2 - Nov 15, 2008
by Don Stewart 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

News about Haskell on Arch Linux http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/arch-haskell-news-nov-15-2008/ Arch now has 705 Haskell packages in AUR. That’s an increase of (again) 33 new packages in the last 14 days. Growth appears to be holding steady at just over 2 new packages a day on Hackage in the first part of November. Noteworthy * haskell-icalendar-0.0: “Parser for iCalendar format (RFC2445)” * haskell-hmatrix-0.5.0.1: “Linear algebra and numerical computations” * haskell-flickr-0.2.2: “Haskell binding to the Flickr API” * gitit-0.2.2.1: “Wiki using HAppS, git, and pandoc.” * haskell-happs-server-0.9.3: “Web related tools and services.” * haddock-2.4.1: “A documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries” And lots of others.

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Cabal2arch not building off yaourt: no 'readPackageDescription' found
by Leif Warner 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

It fails with: ./Main.hs:97:16: Not in scope: `readPackageDescription' I have the AUR package haskell-cabal 1.6.0.1-2 installed. What other info would be noteworthy? -Leif Warner

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Arch Haskell News: Nov 02 2008
by Don Stewart 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

News about the Haskell packages for Arch Linux. Highlights, * 672 Haskell packages now supported in Arch Linux, up 33 from two weeks ago. Noteworthy, * haskell-tcache-0.5.3: “A Transactional data cache with configurable persistence” * haskell-yampa-0.9.2.3: “Library for programming hybrid systems.” * haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.1.3: “Fast and memory efficient low-level networking” * haskell-checkers-0.1.1: “Check properties on standard classes and data structures.” * haskell-coreerlang-0.0.1: “Facilities for manipulating Core Erlang source code: an abstract syntax, parser and pretty-printer.” Full update list, http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/arch-haskell-news-nov-02-2008/ -- Don How's your favourite distro doing? If its not up to scratch, talk to someone.

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