ANN: newports.hs utility for freebsd
i have written a small haskell program to solve a problem many users of freebsd may have - knowing what ports have been updated after a daily/weekly etc cvsup. this is a trivial bit of coding hardly worth attention, but if it might be of use to you, you can find it here: http://www.b7j0c.org/content/haskell-newports.html standard disclaimers - coded & tested mildly by me, a hobbyist haskeller
clawsie:
i have written a small haskell program to solve a problem many users of freebsd may have - knowing what ports have been updated after a daily/weekly etc cvsup. this is a trivial bit of coding hardly worth attention, but if it might be of use to you, you can find it here:
http://www.b7j0c.org/content/haskell-newports.html
standard disclaimers - coded & tested mildly by me, a hobbyist haskeller
nice brad, always good to see `scripting' work in Haskell. would you like to wrap it in a .cabal file and upload it to hackage, so people can find it in the future? details on that process here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program and http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2006/12/11 Free the source! -- Don
On 6/29/07, brad clawsie
i have written a small haskell program to solve a problem many users of freebsd may have - knowing what ports have been updated after a daily/weekly etc cvsup. this is a trivial bit of coding hardly worth attention, but if it might be of use to you, you can find it here:
http://www.b7j0c.org/content/haskell-newports.html
standard disclaimers - coded & tested mildly by me, a hobbyist haskeller
I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything, but isn't this just a simple: find /usr/ports -mtime -1 or find /usr/ports -mtime -X where X is the number of days? What is the advantage of using Haskell in this case? (And if the answer is involves "Because I wanted to see if I could" or "For fun" or "To learn", then I'm always okay with that.) Bryan (Brad, sorry you got this twice--I didn't send it to the list the first time)
What is the advantage of using Haskell in this case?
bryan is correct! i hesitated to even bother the cafe list with this, considering it is so trivial, but i just wanted to learn a bit more about haskell's file and directory functionality, and this bit of code may be something others can look at for some quickie code samples dons - i will definitely "finish the job" and create a .cabal file, and i will post my learning experiences with the packaging tools on my site as well so other newbies can see how easy it is to create official hackage code thanks!
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