September 2008 - arch-haskell

Arch Haskell News: Sep 27 2008
by Don Stewart 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Highlights, * 590 Haskell packages now in Arch Linux, up 14 from last week. Noteworthy, * garsia-wachs :”A Functional Implementation of the Garsia-Wachs Algorithm * datapacker :”Tool to help pack files into the minimum number of CDs/DVDs/etc” * simple-sessions :”A simple implementation of session types” * QuickCheck 2 released * xml updated. Full details: http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/arch-haskell-news-sep-27-2008/ For more information about Haskell on Arch Linux, see the wiki page, or join us online, on IRC, #arch-haskell @ freenode.

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Arch Haskell News: Sep 20 2008
by Don Stewart 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Highlights, * 576 packages now, up 13 from last week. Noteworthy, * hmpf:”Haskell binding to MPFR library” * protocol-buffers:”Parse Google Protocol Buffer specifications” * fckeditor:”Server-Side Integration for FCKeditor” * twidge:”Unix Command-Line Twitter and Identica Client” Full update list, http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/arch-haskell-news-sep-20-2008/ -- Don

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pandoc
by Abhishek Dasgupta 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Hi, I don't understand why haskell-pandoc has ghc and all these haskell-* packages as dependencies. Surely some of them are only makedependencies, right? Also, I think pandoc should remain in [community]. However, the haskell overlay is already providing packages for haskell-pandoc. A possible solution is to adopt haskell-pandoc and its dependencies, moving them to community, while adding a replaces=(pandoc) and provides=(pandoc) to haskell-pandoc. Another thing I noted is that the pandoc 0.46 PKGBUILD in the haskell overlay misses a depends=(gmp) (namcap shows it's required). So the packages from the overlay can not always be used as-is. Regards, -- Abhishek Dasgupta

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Weekly Package Summary
by Don Stewart 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

A weekly update of Haskell in Arch Linux. Arch currently has 563 Haskell packages in AUR. The 10 most popular by AUR packages votes: xmobar 0.9-3 A minimal status bar for the XMonad Window Manager haskell-utf8-string 0.3.1.1-2 Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings haskell-cabal 1.4.0.2-1 A framework for packaging Haskell software haskell-xft 0.2-2 Bindings to the Xft library, and some Xrender parts haddock 2.2.2-2 A documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries gtk2hs 0.9.13-1 A GTK+2 binding for Haskell cabal2arch 0.4-1 Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages haskell-http 3001.0.4-2 haskell-zlib 0.4.0.4-3 Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats cabal-install 0.5.2-1 The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage haskell-curl 1.3.2.1-1 Haskell binding to libcurl == New and updated packages this week == Haskell Packages in AUR haskell-citeproc-hs-0.1 "A Citation Style Language implementation in Haskell" haskell-dataenc-0.11.1 "Data encoding library" twidge-0.99.2 "Unix Command-Line Twitter and Identica Client" haskell-ansi-terminal-0.5.0 "Simple ANSI terminal support, with Windows compatibility" We moved back to haxml 1.13, as it is the stable branch: haskell-haxml-1.13.3 "Utilities for manipulating XML documents" haskell-data-accessor-template-0.1.4 "Utilities for accessing and manipulating fields of records" haskell-data-accessor-0.1.4 "Utilities for accessing and manipulating fields of records" New release of cabal2arch: cabal2arch-0.4 "Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages" haskell-kibro-0.0 "Web development framework." haskell-heap-0.3.1 "Heaps in Haskell" Cute new blog engine for Haskell haskell-panda-0.0.0.2 "Simple Static Blog Engine" haskell-download-curl-0.1.1 "High-level file download based on URLs" haskell-n-m-0.0.1 "Utility to call iwconfig." graphmod-1.1.1 "Present the module dependecies of a program as a \"dot\" graph." haskell-mime-0.2.1 "Working with MIME types." haskell-terminfo-0.2.1 "Haskell bindings to the terminfo library." haskell-vty-3.1.0 "A simple terminal access library" haskell-hgal-1.0.2 "library for computation automorphism group and canonical labelling of a graph" haskell-pandoc-0.46 "Conversion between markup formats" haskell-missingh-1.0.2.0 "Large utility library" haskell-hunit-1.2.0.0 "A unit testing framework for Haskell" haskell-hdbc-1.1.5 "Haskell Database Connectivity" haskell-happs-util-0.9.2.1 "Web framework" haskell-encode-0.7 "Encoding character data" haskell-astar-0.2.1 "General A* search algorithm." haskell-dbus-0.3 "DBus bindings" haskell-xml-parsec-1.0.2 "Parsing XML with Parsec" haskell-pkcs1-1.0.2 "RSA encryption with PKCS1 padding" haskell-hsgnutls-0.2.3.2 "Library wrapping the GnuTLS API."

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RSS feed for new AUR packages
by Don Stewart 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Haskell packages uploaded to AUR will appear on this rss feed, http://code.haskell.org/arch/aur.xml Cheers, Don

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distributing documentation
by Roman Cheplyaka 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

I came from Debian world. One of things I like in Debian is mandatory documentation for each package. In arch there seems to be another practice -- I don't have /usr/share/doc at all. I don't know whether arch has some policy concerning documentation, but can't we do better at least in arch-haskell land? I mean to include haddock docs in haskell packages. For me it sounds abusive, that having packages installed I need to search Internet for their documentation. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ kzm: My program contains a bug. How ungrateful, after all I've done for it.

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Re: [arch-haskell] distributing documentation
by Don Stewart 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

matt: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:06:47AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > Not every package has haddocks that build, and it adds haddock as a new > > dependency to the build process. > > Why is this such a bad thing? Haddock is something most haskell users > have on their systems. The build system is already fairly ... large. And the point of the package system is to make Haskell things available to non-Haskell users -- those who don't already have a full toolchain installed. Given the docs are already been pre-generated for us on hackage.haskell.org, for each package, we could just suck those down. -- Don

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Happenings of late
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Hi, Not much to report for me. There was a huge ncurses update that required an upgrade of ghc to 6.8.2-2. Nothing changed there, just a rebuild. We thought of going to 6.8.3, but decided not to due to some issues that have been reported against it. 6.10 should be just around the corner, though. I noticed that our ghc isn't built with the typical "distribution" optimization set, so I added that. That change didn't get to 6.8.2-2, though. And just recently, I updated xmonad, xmonad-contrib to 0.8 and uploaded to i686. I'll upload x86_64 on monday. --vk

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