Haskell Weekly News: April 10, 2006 Greetings, and thanks for reading issue 32 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. Each Monday, new editions are posted to [1]the Haskell mailing list and to [2]The Haskell Sequence. [3]RSS is also available. Headlines also go to [4]haskell.org. 1. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell 2. http://sequence.complete.org/ 3. http://sequence.complete.org/node/feed 4. http://haskell.org/ Announcements hImerge: a graphical user interface for emerge. Luis Araujo released [5]hImerge, a graphical user interface for emerge, (Gentoo's Portage system) written in Haskell using gtk2hs. [6]Here's a jpg. The main idea is to simplify browsing the entire portage tree as well as of running the most basic and common options from the emerge command. hImerge also offers several handy tools, like global and local use flags browsers, and a minimal web browser. 5. http://haskell.org/~luisfaraujo/himerge/ 6. http://haskell.org/~luisfaraujo/rhimerge.jpeg MissingH 0.14.0. John Goerzen [7]announced MissingH 0.14.0, a library of "missing" functions. MissingH is available [8]here. 7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13531 8. http://quux.org/devel/missingh/ Haskell mailing list archives. Don Stewart [9]converted the Haskell mailing list archives from 1990-2000, into html format. The archive is available to view [10]here. 9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13521 10. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/haskell-1990-2000/threads.html Chapter 4 of Hitchhikers Guide to the Haskell. Dmitry Astapov [11]announced that the 4th chapter of the Hitchhikers Guide to Haskell is now [12]available. 11. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/12338 12. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Haskell Edison 1.2 rc3. Robert Dockins [13]announced that the 3rd release candidate for Edison 1.2 is now avaliable. 13. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/4508 Haskell' This section covers activity on [14]Haskell' standardisation process. * [15]State threads * [16]Terminating instances * [17]deriving Tree * [18]deriving Typeable * [19]deriving for newtypes * [20]deepSeq * [21]Asynchronous exceptions * [22]Exceptions 14. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime 15. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1197 16. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1203 17. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1218/focus=1218 18. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1243 19. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1219/focus=1219 20. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1266 21. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1222/focus=1222 22. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1282/focus=1282 Code watch Wed Apr 5 06:33:44 PDT 2006 Simon Marlow * add support for x86_64; foreign import is now supported in GHCi on x86_64 Thu Apr 6 10:57:53 PDT 2006 Lemmih * GHC.Base.breakpoint isn't vaporware anymore. -fignore-breakpoints can be used to ignore breakpoints. Thu Apr 6 19:05:11 PDT 2006 Simon Marlow * Reorganisation of the source tree Most of the other users of the fptools build system have migrated to Cabal, and with the move to darcs we can now flatten the source tree without losing history, so here goes. The main change is that the ghc/ subdir is gone, and most of what it contained is now at the top level. The build system now makes no pretense at being multi-project, it is just the GHC build system. Quotes of the Week JaffaCake :: gcc is getting smarter, so we need to hit it with a bigger stick ihope :: Oops, I forgot that Djinn doesn't do GADT's. malig :: quantum mechanics actually strikes me as less weird than lazy evaluation sometimes. at least it disallows time travel Contributing to HWN Thanks to Luis Araujo for help preparing this issue. You can help us create new editions of this newsletter. Please see the [23]contributing information, send stories to dons -at- cse.unsw.edu.au. The darcs repository is available at darcs get http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hwn 23. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN