Arch Haskell News: Jan 11 2009

Arch Haskell News: Jan 11 2009 Hey all, welcome to the first Arch Haskell News of 2009. (News about Haskell on the Arch Linux platform). Arch now has 827 Haskell packages in AUR. That’s an increase of 93 new packages in the last 48 days, or 1.9 new Haskell apps and libraries a day over the holiday season. Well done everyone!. Noteworthy * lhc-0.6.20081127: “LHC Haskell Compiler” * cabal2arch-0.4.2: “Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages” * timberc-1.0.2: “The Timber Compiler.” * haskell-x11-1.4.5: “A binding to the X11 graphics library” * haskell-curl-1.3.2.2: “Haskell binding to libcurl” * alex-2.3.1: “Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskel * haskell-bytestring-trie-0.1: “Efficient map from strings to values.” * haskell-llvm-0.5.0.1: “Bindings to the LLVM compiler toolkit” * tetris-0.27178: “A 2-D clone of Tetris” * haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.1.4: “Fast and memory efficient low-level networking” * haskell-hdbc-1.1.6: “Haskell Database Connectivity” http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/arch-haskell-news-jan-11-2009/ Other news: * llvm support, http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/llvm-haskell-bindings/ * new hdbc release, http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/hdbc-haskell-database-suite-upda... * salvia, new web framework, supported http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/new-haskell-web-framework-salvia... Bring on 2009 and the era of ubiquitous Haskell! -- Don

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Peter Hercek
Hi,
Any idea why ghc 6.10.1 is still in Testing repository on archlinux?
I have some idea :P The obvious reason: we wanted to minimize the amount of breakage the upgrade would cause. My guess was that the most common usage pattern for ghc on Arch is building one's own xmonad config, and there's still no release version of xmonad-contrib that builds on ghc-6.10.1. --vk P.S. you might wanna consider subscribing to http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Don Stewart
Arch Haskell News: Jan 11 2009
Hey all, welcome to the first Arch Haskell News of 2009. (News about Haskell on the Arch Linux platform).
Arch now has 827 Haskell packages in AUR.
FWIW I just replaced gentoo[1] on my desktop with arch, at least in part due to this sort of community enthusiasm :) [1] i was going to replace it anyway, but wasn't sure what with martin
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Don Stewart
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Martin DeMello
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Peter Hercek
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Vesa Kaihlavirta