Haskell Weekly News: September 6, 2005 Greetings, and thanks for reading the sixth issue of HWN, a weekly newsletter for the Haskell community. Each Tuesday, new editions will be posted (as text) to [1]the Haskell mailing list and (as HTML) to [2]The Haskell Sequence. 1. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell 2. http://sequence.complete.org/ New Releases * h4sh 0.2. Donald Bruce Stewart [3]announced version 0.2 of h4sh, a tool to expose Haskell functions to shell scripters. This release adds more functions, removed argument flags, cabalized the package, added regex operators, and had some other changes as well. * cabal-get/put beta. Isaac Jones [4]announced the beta of cabal-get, which will download and install Haskell packages and their dependencies. It is designed to work for any cabal-compatible package. The cabal-get team is looking for beta testers to try out both cabal-get and cabal-put. 3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12043 4. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8188 Discussion Emacs haskell-mode. Frederik Eaton began a [5]thread on the Emacs haskell-mode, asking where the latest version is available from. 5. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12044 Time limits on computations. Dmitry Vyal [6]asked how to set a time limit on computations. Several different suggestions were presented over the course of the discussion. 6. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8185 Haskell Toolchain The Haskell CVS server, previously hosted at OGI, is now being [7]hosted by [8]Galois. There is a new machine and updated software, but it should be a drop-in replacement overall. 7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12036 8. http://www.galois.com/ Darcs Corner Darcs 1.0.4pre3 and pre4. Two new Darcs prerelease versions happened this week. First, 1.0.4pre3 was [9]announced this week. 1.0.4pre4 quickly [10]followed, correcting an error in a Makefile. This is expected to be the last prerelease prior to 1.0.4 itself. 9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8192 10. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8198 Quote of the Week "When I read through a Haskell program, it's more like reading a novel than solving a calculus problem." -- [11]post on the Haskell Sequence 11. http://sequence.complete.org/node/93 About Haskell Weekly News Want to continue reading HWN? Please help us create new editions of this newsletter. Please see the [12]contributing information, or send stories to hwn -at- complete -dot- org. There is also a Darcs repository available. 12. http://sequence.complete.org/hwn-contrib