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

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:00 +0100, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:35:24 +0100, Don Stewart wrote:

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* Hackage currently holds 914 applications and libraries.

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

The most reliable method is to use cabal list --simple-output eg all package versions: $ cabal list --simple-output | wc -l 2794 distinct package names $ cabal list --simple-output | cut -d' ' -f 1 | uniq | wc -l 932 top 10 most uploaded packages $ cabal list --simple-output | cut -d' ' -f 1 | uniq -c | sort -n | tail 14 hake 14 mueval 16 haskell-src-exts 18 category-extras 18 HXQ 19 cabal2arch 20 regexpr 20 sessions 21 reactive 31 panda There's also http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/stats though for some reason it does not agree with us. Duncan