Arch Haskell News: Oct 12 2008

A weekly update of Haskell in Arch Linux.

Arch now has 624 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 15 new packages in the last 7 days.

Planning is also underway for the GHC 6.10 release, and the 6.10 release candidate is in testing.

Noteworthy

• cabal-install-0.6.0: “The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage.”
• haskell-cabal-1.6.0.1: “A framework for packaging Haskell software”
• haskell-transactional-events-0.1.0.0: “Transactional events, based on Concurrent ML semantics”
• haskell-bytestring-0.9.1.3: “Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a list interface”

New and updated packages this week

• haskell-hsx-0.4.5: “HSX (Haskell Source with XML) allows literal XML syntax to be used in Haskell source code.”
• cabal-install-0.6.0: “The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage.”
• haskell-cabal-1.6.0.1: “A framework for packaging Haskell software”
• haskell-haskell-src-exts-0.3.9: “Manipulating Haskell source: abstract syntax, lexer, parser, and pretty-printer”
• haskell-uvector-0.1.0.3: “Fast unboxed arrays with a flexible interface”
• haskell-hslogger-1.0.6: “Versatile logging framework”
• haskell-httpd-shed-0.2: “A simple websever with an interact style API”
• haskell-transactional-events-0.1.0.0: “Transactional events, based on Concurrent ML semantics”
• haskell-maccatcher-1.0.0: “Obtain the host MAC address on *NIX and Windows.”
• haskell-listzipper-1.1.0.0: “Simple zipper for lists”
• haskell-terminfo-0.2.2.1: “Haskell bindings to the terminfo library.”
• haskell-uuid-1.0.0: “For creating, comparing, parsing and printing Universally Unique Identifiers”
• haskell-data-memocombinators-0.1: “Combinators for building memo tables.”
• haskell-http-shed-0.1: “A simple websever with an interact style API”
• cpphs-1.6: “A liberalised re-implementation of cpp, the C pre-processor.”
• haskell-hsconfigure-0.1: “By using this package, you can make application configurable.”
• haskell-http-3001.1.3: “A library for client-side HTTP”
• haskell-hmpfr-0.1.2: “Haskell binding to MPFR library”
• yi-0.5.0.1: “The Haskell-Scriptable Editor”
• haskell-vty-3.1.2: “A simple terminal access library”
• haskell-data-ivar-0.11: “Write-once variables with concurrency support”
• cheatsheet-1.0: “A Haskell cheat sheet in PDF and literate formats.”
• haskell-hsyslog-1.3: “FFI interface to syslog(3) from POSIX.1-2001.”
• turing-music-0.1.1: “Plays music generated by Turing machines with 5 states and 2 symbols”
• haskell-utf8-prelude-0.1.3: “Prelude and System.IO with UTF8 text I/O”
• haskell-aern-real-0.9.7.2: “arbitrary precision interval arithmetic for approximating exact real numbers”
• haskell-storablevector-0.2.1: “Fast, packed, strict storable arrays with a list interface like ByteString”
• haskell-test-framework-quickcheck-0.2.0: “QuickCheck support for the test-framework package.”
• haskell-test-framework-hunit-0.2.0: “HUnit support for the test-framework package.”
• haskell-test-framework-0.2.0: “Framework for running and organising tests, with HUnit and QuickCheck support”
• haskell-rss-3000.0.1: “A library for generating RSS 2.0 feeds.”
• haskell-graphalyze-0.3: “Graph-Theoretic Analysis library.”
• haskell-unicode-prelude-0.1: “Unicode notation for some definitions in Prelude”
• haskell-bytestring-0.9.1.3: “Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a list interface”

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