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ghc-6.10.2 in testing
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hey, The new ghc is just a simple verbump at least for now. It doesn't try to do anything intelligent for your cabalized or cabal2arch packages, so all those do break. I'm interested in ideas how to mitigate these issues... now, it seems to me that they cannot very much, and the most we can do is unregister everything prior to upgrading and informing the user of this. Also, none of the community packages are built against this yet, so those will break as well. --vk

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Problem with Server.Helpers
by edgar＠ymonad.com 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi, I installed haskell-happstack-helpers from AUR and I'm having some problems with the function exactdir on Happstack.Server.Helpers. The problem is that I can load normally the module, but the type of exactdir function is: GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> :m +Happstack.Helpers Prelude Happstack.Helpers> :t exactdir exactdir :: (Monad m) => String -> happstack-server-0.2.1:Happstack.Server.SimpleHTTP.ServerPartT m a -> happstack-server-0.2.1:Happstack.Server.SimpleHTTP.ServerPartT m a And ghc doesn't recognize when I pass a ServerPartT m a to exactdir. Prelude Happstack.Helpers Happstack.Server> simpleHTTP nullConf $ exactdir "/about" $ ok "Hello" <interactive>:1:22: Couldn't match expected type `ServerPartT IO a' against inferred type `happstack-server-0.2.1:Happstack.Server.SimpleHTTP.ServerPartT m [Char]' In the second argument of `($)', namely `exactdir "/about" $ ok "Hello"' In the expression: simpleHTTP nullConf $ exactdir "/about" $ ok "Hello" In the definition of `it': it = simpleHTTP nullConf $ exactdir "/about" $ ok "Hello" But if I copy the source of exactdir (and spsIf too) to the file where I use simpleHTTP the type checks correctly. Any ideas? Edgar

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Arch Linux now provides more than 1000 Haskell libraries and apps
by Don Stewart 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

A small milestone in the packaging business: http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/arch-haskell-news-mar-14-2009-1… More than 1000 Haskell packages packaged up for Arch Linux. Hackage now has 1163 (+41) Haskell packages, of which 1007 (+33) have been natively packaged for Arch in AUR. That’s 33 new packages in two weeks, and lots of updates as well. Read this week's updates on the blog. -- Don

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What's new on Hackage this week? March 14, 2009
by Don Stewart 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/arch-haskell-news-mar-14-2009/ A regular update of Haskell in Arch Linux Arch now has 974 Haskell packages in AUR. That’s 12 new packages this week, and lots of updates as well. See the blog for the full list of updates. -- Don

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haskell-terminfo is missing dependency on extensible-exceptions
by Peter Hercek 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi, Terminfo depends on extensible-exceptions based on the cabal file but the dependency is not in the PKGBUILD file. If it is not appropriate to send a notice here about bugs which are already mentioned in the corresponding aur page (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17634) then, please, let me know. Peter.

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Arch Linux: New package updates for Mar 8, 2008
by Don Stewart 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

New Haskell packages for the week ending Mar 8. http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/arch-haskell-news-mar-8-2009/ Arch now has 962 Haskell packages in AUR. That’s 17 new packages this week, and lots of updates as well. Notable releases this week * htar-0.3: Command-line tar archive utility * haskell-llvm-0.6.5.0: Bindings to the LLVM compiler toolkit * haskell-harpy-0.4.1: Runtime code generation for x86 machine code * haskell-future-1.0.0: Supposed to mimics and enhance proposed C++ ”future” features * haskell-holumbus-mapreduce-0.0.1: a distributed MapReduce framework * haskell-holumbus-storage-0.0.1: a distributed storage system * haskell-holumbus-distribution-0.0.1: intra- and inter-program communication * hevolisa-dph-0.0.1: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in Haskell - using Data Parallel Haskell * doctest-0.0.0: Test interactive Haskell examples * haskell-happstack-0.2.1: The haskell application server stack + code generation See the full list of new Haskell packages this week on the blog, broken down by category, http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/arch-haskell-news-mar-8-2009/

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haskell documentation
by Don Stewart 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Forwarded from haskell@ I'd prefer a single documentation bundle for everything ever built on hackage, rather than trying to get haddock to run on each build. ----- Forwarded message from Piyush P Kurur <ppk(a)cse.iitk.ac.in> ----- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:55:06 +0530 From: Piyush P Kurur <ppk(a)cse.iitk.ac.in> To: haskell(a)haskell.org Subject: [Haskell] haskell documentation Hi, I am a Arch linux + GHC user. I found it difficult to download documentations for GHC and all the modules. The GHC site does not seem to have a single tar.gz file by which one could down load the entire documentation tree. Same problem for modules build via yaourt. Of course one could build it directly from the appropriate cabal package but is there an automatic way via pacman/yaourt for example ? Regards ppk _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell(a)haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell ----- End forwarded message -----

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pandoc in the repositories
by Abhishek Dasgupta 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi all, pandoc in the [community] repository is by now quite outdated. While there is a haskell-pandoc package in AUR, it cannot be used by people who do not want to install the whole gamut of GHC and the haskell toolchain. I've prepared a PKGBUILD for pandoc 1.1 which depends only on gmp, but makedepends on ghc, haskell-utf8-string and haskell-zip-archive. Is it OK if I move these to [community]? Cheers, Abhishek

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lhs2tex
by George Giorgidze 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi Arch-Haskellers, CC Mateusz Herych, Does anyone know why is lhs2tex outdated in AUR? I suggest to (automatically) package it using cabal2arch like most of the Hackage packages are packaged. If it requites some manual intervention I suggest to ask Matesz (the current maintainer) to update it. In case if he is busy and does not have enough time I (or some one else who volunteers) would do it. I think lhs2tex is a nice, useful and mature piece of software and does not deserve to be outdated in AUR ;). IMHO, it is well placed to be included in the community repo as well. Cheers, George -- George Giorgidze http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ggg/

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Arch packages and/or Cabal-install ?
by papa.eric＠free.fr 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hello... a newbie question (not installed Arch yet, only decided to give it a try... new to this list, too) : It seems that haskell packages on Arch can be reliably managed by either cabal-install or arch packages. I suppose that mixing both is is not recommended ? e.g. using an arch package if it exists else caba-install, or obtaining one by arch yaourt but then upgrading it by cabal install... So, what would be the drawback of installing as arch packages the minimum to have GHC and cabal-install, and then using exclusively cabal-install to install and upgrade haskell stuff ? What does arch packages bring more than cabal-install, since both manage dependences ? Thanks, and sorry if the question is naive... Eric

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