pugs 6.2.13.12 now available for Arch Linux, with ghc 6.10 support

A new release of pugs, the world’s first Perl 6 implementation, has occured, and the Arch Linux packages for Pugs have been updated to build with both ghc 6.8.x and ghc 6.10 (now in the [testing] repository).

$ pugs
   ______
 /   __ 
    /  __  __  ______  ______     (P)erl 6
      __// / /  __ /  ___    (U)ser's
      /   _   /  ___     (G)olfing
     __   ____/ ____ /_____  (S)ystem
     /__/   /___/  /___/ /____/
                       /____/            Version: 6.2.13.11
                       /___/    Copyright 2005-2008, The Pugs Contributors
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 Web: http://pugscode.org/           Email: perl6-compiler@perl.org 

Welcome to Pugs -- Perl6 User's Golfing System
Type :h for help.

Loading Prelude... done.
pugs> 1 + 2
3

The main changes required were to the haskell-pugs-compat, haskell-pugs-drift 2.2.3.0-2 and haskell-hssyck 0.44-2 packages to add “–constraint=’base<4′” to ensure they built with the correct base version.

Enjoy the distro packages for your favorite Haskell applications.

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