Re: [Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:13 +0000, Dougal Stanton wrote:

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

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Using the commands: cabal update cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc I counted 927 entries.

Unfortunately that's not a reliable means of determining cabal packages. (Baffling, I know.) I think it actually lists things you have installed from other sources, too. For instance:

$ cabal list | grep cairo * cairo Homepage: http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2006/01/26/cairo-eye-candy/ $ cabal install cairo cabal: There is no package named cairo

Good point. I'd forgotten that. That'd explain why the hackage stats do not agree with me.

Last time this came up there was mention of adding an option to only list things which cabal has control over. I don't know if anything has come of that idea.

I expect it'd be easy for some new cabal hacker. I await the patch :-) Duncan