Hi folks, I've made new releases of a number of my packages. Rather than flood the list with individual announcements, I've consolidated them here. Many of these packages have only GHC 6.8 compatibility updates, but a fair number also have more significant changes. Detailed changes lists are below. These packages have been updated: anydbm ConfigFile darcs-buildpackage dfsbuild HDBC HDBC-odbc HDBC-postgresql HDBC-sqlite3 hg-buildpackage HSH hslogger LDAP ListLike magic MissingH srcinst These have not yet been updated: arch2darcs (no longer maintained) gtkrsync (pending newer GTK upload in Debian) hpodder (pending newer haxml upload in Debian) missingpy (pending available time) All packages have been uploaded to: * Hackage * Debian sid * Their software.complete.org site, if any * Their darcs or Mercurial repository anydbm 1.0.5 ------------ A generic interface library for DBM-like databases Update for GHC 6.8.x. Homepage: http://software.complete.org/anydbm ConfigFile 1.0.4 ---------------- Library for reading/writing human-editable configuration files Updated for GHC 6.8 compatibility and the new MissingH Homepage: http://software.complete.org/configfile darcs-buildpackage 0.5.12 ------------------------- Tools for building Debian packages with source stored in Darcs Updated for GHC 6.8 compatibility and the new MissingH Homepages: Darcs repo: http://darcs.complete.org/darcs-buildpackage Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/darcs-buildpackage dfsbuild 1.0.2 -------------- Tool for building Debian From Scratch bootable ISO images * Update for GHC 6.8.x Homepage: http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs HDBC 1.1.4 ---------- Haskell DataBase Connectivity, generic RDBMS access * Update cabal for GHC 6.8 thanks to Paulo Tanimoto Homepage: http://software.complete.org/hdbc HDBC-odbc 1.1.4.0 ----------------- HDBC driver for ODBC connectivity * Updates for GHC 6.8 thanks to Bjorn Bringert and John Goerzen Homepage: http://software.complete.org/hdbc-odbc HDBC-postgresql 1.1.4.0 ----------------------- HDBC driver for PostgreSQL * Make sure Hackage tarball gets all files in package * Update for GHC 6.8 thanks to Duncan Coutts * Now use pg_config to find PostgreSQL library locations automatically thanks to Duncan Coutts Homepage: http://software.complete.org/hdbc-postgresql HDBC-sqlite3 1.1.4.0 -------------------- HDBC driver for Sqlite v3 * Cabal updates for GHC 6.8 thanks to Duncan Coutts and Paulo Tanimoto * Allow statements to remain prepared after execution has finished thanks to Toby Allsopp Homepage: http://software.complete.org/hdbc-sqlite3 hg-buildpackage 1.0.4 --------------------- Tools for building Debian packages with source in Mercurial Updates for compatibility with GHC 6.8, newest MissingH and HSH Homepages: Mercurial repo: http://hg.complete.org/hg-buildpackage Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hg-buildpackage-1... Debian: http://packages.debian.org/hg-buildpackage [ no trac instance ] HSH 1.2.5 --------- Library for easy shell-like scripting in Haskell * Clean ups and doc updates [jgoerzen] * Update for newer MissingH [jgoerzen] * Update .cabal for GHC 6.8 thanks to gwern0 * Various cleanups and reorgs thanks to gwern0 * New wcW (wc word count) in ShellEquivs thanks to gwern0 Homepage: http://software.complete.org/hsh hslogger 1.0.4 -------------- Library providing logging infrastructure * Updated for GHC 6.8 compatibility * Removed Setup.hs hooks in favor of Cabal configurations * Thanks to patches from Shae Erisson and Spencer Janssen contributing to the GHC 6.8 compatibility. Homepage: http://software.complete.org/hslogger LDAP 0.6.3 ---------- Haskell bindings for LDAP * GHC 6.8.x compatibility fixes * Updated homepage in .cabal file Homepage: http://software.complete.org/ldap-haskell ListLike 1.0.1 -------------- Library providing generic operations over list-like types * GHC 6.8.x compatibility fixes to .cabal file Homepage: http://software.complete.org/listlike magic 1.0.7 ----------- Binding for Magic, the file type identification library * Updates for GHC 6.8 compatibility Homepages: Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/magic-1.0.7 Darcs tree: http://darcs.complete.org/magic-haskell MissingH 1.0.0 -------------- Library of many useful functions * Poof, this is 1.0! * GHC 6.8 compatibility fixes: + GHC 6.8 introduced Data.String. Renamed the MissingH Data.String to Data.String.Utils + doc string tweaks for new haddock + cabal and build system updates thanks to Duncan Coutts * -Wall compatibility improvements throughout. Patches from gwern0 * Data.List.Utils.uniq efficiency improved thanks to Martin Huschenbett * New Data.Tuple.Utils from Neil Mitchell Homepage: http://software.complete.org/missingh srcinst 0.8.10 -------------- Tool to install Debian packages using only source, Gentoo-style * Updated for GHC 6.8.x and new MissingH