Arch Haskell News: Nov 02 2008

A weekly update of Haskell in Arch Linux.

Arch now has 672 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 33 new packages in the last 14 days. Growth appears to be holding steady at just over 2 new packages a day on Hackage in October.

Noteworthy

• haskell-tcache-0.5.3: “A Transactional data cache with configurable persistence”
• haskell-yampa-0.9.2.3: “Library for programming hybrid systems.”
• haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.1.3: “Fast and memory efficient low-level networking”
• haskell-checkers-0.1.1: “Check properties on standard classes and data structures.”
• haskell-coreerlang-0.0.1: “Facilities for manipulating Core Erlang source code: an abstract syntax, parser and pretty-printer.”

New and updated packages this week

• haskell-regexpr-0.3.4: “regular expression like Perl/Ruby in Haskell”
• haskell-tcache-0.5.3: “A Transactional data cache with configurable persistence”
• haskell-hake-0.8: “make tool. ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• haskell-yjtools-0.6: “some tools for Monad, List, Tuple and so on.”
• haskell-mtlparse-0.0.1: “parse library use mtl package”
• haskell-hunit-1.2.0.3: “A unit testing framework for Haskell”
• haskell-stm-2.1.1.2: “Software Transactional Memory”
• haskell-network-2.2.0.1: “Networking-related facilities”
• haskell-yampa-0.9.2.3: “Library for programming hybrid systems.”
• haskell-bzlib-0.5.0.0: “Compression and decompression in the bzip2 format”
• haskell-zlib-0.5.0.0: “Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats”
• haskell-combinat-0.1: “Generation of various combinatorial objects.”
• haskell-hssqlite3-0.0.5.20081031: “sqlite3 bindings”
• haskell-reactive-glut-0.0.3: “Connects Reactive and GLUT”
• haskell-reactive-0.8.6: “Simple foundation for functional reactive programming”
• haskell-graphicsformats-0.1: “Classes for renderable objects.”
• haskell-multirec-0.1: “Generic programming with systems of recursive datatypes”
• haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.1.3: “Fast and memory efficient low-level networking”
• haskell-tabular-0.1.0.1: “Two-dimensional data tables with rendering functions”
• haskell-checkers-0.1.1: “Check properties on standard classes and data structures.”
• haskell-yjtools-0.4: “some tools for Monad”
• haskell-typecompose-0.5.1: “Type composition classes & instances”
• haskell-unamb-0.0: “Unambiguous choice”
• haskell-checkers-0.1: “Check properties on standard classes and data structures.”
• haskell-c-io-0.1.0: “C IO.”
• haskell-hode-2008.10.27: “Binding to libODE”
• haskell-sqlite-0.4.2: “Haskell binding to sqlite3”
• cheatsheet-1.4: “A Haskell cheat sheet in PDF and literate formats.”
• haskell-hake-0.3: “ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• haskell-feed-0.3.4: “Interfacing with RSS (v 0.9x, 2.x, 1.0) + Atom feeds.”
• haskell-external-sort-0.2: “Sort large arrays on your hard drive. Kind of like the unix util sort.”
• haskell-fgl-5.4.2.0: “Martin Erwig’s Functional Graph Library”
• haskell-hake-0.2: “ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• haskell-edisoncore-1.2.1.3: “A library of efficent, purely-functional data structures (Core Implementations)”
• haskell-rewriting-0.1: “Generic rewriting library for regular datatypes.”
• haskell-queue-0.1.1.2: “Abstraction typeclasses for queue-like things.”
• haskell-reord-0.0.0.2: “Ad-hoc Ord instances”
• haskell-stateref-0.2.1.1: “Abstraction for things that work like IORef.”
• haskell-colour-0.0.0: “A colour model for human vision”
• haskell-vector-space-0.4.1: “Vector & affine spaces, linear maps, and derivatives (requires ghc 6.9)”
• haskell-data-quotientref-0.1: “Reference cells that need two independent indices to be accessed.”
• haskell-data-ivar-0.30: “Write-once variables with concurrency support”
• haskell-editline-0.2.1.0: “Bindings to the editline library (libedit).”
• haskell-zip-archive-0.1.1.1: “Library for creating and modifying zip archives.”
• haskell-classify-2008.10.19: “Library for classification of media files.”

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