Arch Haskell News: Mar 8 2009

A regular update of Haskell in Arch Linux

Arch now has 962 Haskell packages in AUR. That’s 17 new packages this week, and lots of updates as well.

Notable releases this week

• htar-0.3: Command-line tar archive utility
• haskell-llvm-0.6.5.0: Bindings to the LLVM compiler toolkit
• haskell-harpy-0.4.1: Runtime code generation for x86 machine code
• haskell-future-1.0.0: Supposed to mimics and enhance proposed C++ \”future\” features
• haskell-holumbus-mapreduce-0.0.1: a distributed MapReduce framework
• haskell-holumbus-storage-0.0.1: a distributed storage system
• haskell-holumbus-distribution-0.0.1: intra- and inter-program communication
• hevolisa-dph-0.0.1: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in Haskell – using Data Parallel Haskell
• doctest-0.0.0: Test interactive Haskell examples
• haskell-happstack-0.2.1: The haskell application server stack + code generation

Here they all are, broken down by category, so you can get a sense for what’s new in your area of interest:

Algorithm

• haskell-hmm-0.1.1: Hidden Markov Model algorithms

Codec

• htar-0.3: Command-line tar archive utility.
• haskell-tar-0.3.0.0: Reading, writing and manipulating \”.tar\” archive files.

Compilers

• haskell-llvm-0.6.5.0: Bindings to the LLVM compiler toolkit
• haskell-harpy-0.4.1: Runtime code generation for x86 machine code

Concurrency

• haskell-future-1.0.0: Supposed to mimics and enhance proposed C++ \”future\” features

Control

• haskell-stateful-mtl-1.0.6: Stateful monad transformers with pure evaluation semantics.
• haskell-explicit-exception-0.1.3: Exceptions which are explicit in the type signature.
• haskell-pqueue-mtl-1.0.6: Fully encapsulated monad transformers with queuelike functionality.
• haskell-explicit-sharing-0.1: Explicit Sharing of Monadic Effects
• haskell-level-monad-0.2.2.1: Non-Determinism Monad for Level-Wise Search
• haskell-stream-monad-0.1.1.0: Simple, Fair and Terminating Backtracking Monad

Cryptography

• haskell-sha-1.2.0: Implementations of the SHA suite of message digest functions

Data

• haskell-logfloat-0.11.1: Log-domain floating point numbers
• haskell-fraction-0.0.0.0: Fractions
• haskell-applicative-numbers-0.0.2: Applicative-based numeric instances
• haskell-binary-0.5.0.1: Binary serialisation for Haskell values using lazy ByteStrings
• haskell-storable-0.1: Storable type class for variable-sized data
• haskell-utility-ht-0.0.4: Various small helper functions for Lists, Maybes, Tuples, Functions
• haskell-emgm-0.3.1: Extensible and Modular Generics for the Masses
• haskell-simple-reflect-0.2: Simple reflection of expressions containing variables

Database

• haskell-hdbc-mysql-0.5: MySQL driver for HDBC

Devel

• cabal2arch-0.5.1: Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages
• leksah-0.4.2.1: Haskell IDE written in Haskell

Distributed Systems

• haskell-holumbus-mapreduce-0.0.1: a distributed MapReduce framework
• haskell-holumbus-storage-0.0.1: a distributed storage system
• haskell-holumbus-distribution-0.0.1: intra- and inter-program communication

Graphics

• hevolisa-dph-0.0.1: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in Haskell – using Data Parallel Haskell
• hevolisa-0.0.1: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in Haskell

Network

• hichi-0.0.1: haskell robot for IChat protocol

System

• haskell-miniplex-0.3.4: simple 1-to-N interprocess communication
• haskell-augeas-0.1.2: A Haskell FFI wrapper for the Augeas API

Testing

• doctest-0.0.0: Test interactive Haskell examples

Text

• haskell-polyparse-1.2: A variety of alternative parser combinator libraries.
• haskell-liboleg-0.1: A collection of Oleg Kiselyov’s Haskell modules
• haskell-regex-tdfa-1.0.0: Replaces/Enhances Text.Regex
• haskell-pandoc-1.2: Conversion between markup formats

Web

• haskell-happstack-0.2.1: The haskell application server stack + code generation
• haskell-happstack-server-0.2.1: Web related tools and services.
• haskell-happstack-ixset-0.2.1: Efficient relational queries on Haskell sets.
• haskell-happstack-state-0.2.1: Event-based distributed state.
• haskell-happstack-data-0.2.1: Happstack data manipulation libraries
• haskell-happstack-util-0.2.1: Web framework
• haskell-happstack-helpers-0.20: Convenience functions for Happstack.

Xml

• haskell-tagsoup-ht-0.3: alternative parser for the tagsoup package
• haskell-xml-basic-0.0.1: Basics for XML/HTML representation and processing

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