Arch Haskell News: July 25 2009

Hackage now has 1443 (+48) Haskell packages, of which 1266 (+44) (87.7%) have been natively packaged for Arch in AUR. All these packages are available via AUR, using the “yaourt” tool.

Read the full list of updates.

Notable Updates

There were some quite significant new apps, and libraries this month.

• haskell-graphviz-2999.1.0.2: GraphViz bindings for Haskell.
• haskell-persistent-map-0.2.2: A thread-safe interface for finite map types with optional persistency support.
• hspresent-0.1: A terminal presentation tool
• hsffig-1.1: Generate FFI import declarations from C include files
• haskell-theora-1.0: bindings to the Video Compression Library (see http: theora.org)
• timberc-1.0.3: The Timber Compiler.
• haskell-utf8-string-0.3.5: Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings
• haskell-generator-0.5.2: Python-generators notation for creation of monadic lists
• haskell-text-0.3: An efficient packed Unicode text type
• haskell-hdbc-2.1.1: Haskell Database Connectivity
• haskell-takusen-0.8.5: Database library with left-fold interface, for PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, ODBC.
• hoogle-4.0.7: Haskell API Search
• hlint-1.6.4: Source code suggestions
• djinn-2009.2.8: Generate Haskell code from a type
• cabal2arch-0.5.3: Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages
• yi-0.6.1: The Haskell-Scriptable Editor
• cpphs-1.7: A liberalised re-implementation of cpp, the C pre-processor.
• minesweeper-0.4.1: Minesweeper game which is always solvable without guessing
• haskell-chart-0.11: A library for generating 2D Charts and Plots
• haskell-jmacro-0.1: QuasiQuotation library for programmatic generation of Javascript code.
• curry-frontend-0.2.2: Compile the functional logic language Curry to several intermediate formats

• haskell-htensor-0.1.0: Multidimensional arrays and simple tensor computations.
• haskell-species-0.1: Combinatorial species library
• haskell-yices-0.0.0.1: Haskell programming interface to Yices SMT solver
• haskell-haskellformaths-0.1.6: Math library – combinatorics, group theory, commutative algebra, non-commutative
• haskell-hmatrix-0.5.2.2: Linear algebra and numerical computations
• haskell-fft-0.1.4: Bindings to the FFTW library.
• haskell-network-2.2.1.4: Networking-related facilities
• twitter-0.1.1: A Haskell-based CLI Twitter client
• haskell-hxt-8.3.1: A collection of tools for processing XML with Haskell.

Arch Haskell News: June 30 2009

Another update, since there was a bit of a package backlog.

Hackage now has 1395 (+130) Haskell packages, of which 1222 (+113) (87.6%) have been natively packaged for Arch in AUR. All these packages are available via AUR, using the “yaourt” tool.

The full log of updates and new packages is available here.

Notable Updates

• haskell-hdbc-2.1.1: Haskell Database Connectivity
• haskell-takusen-0.8.5: Database library with left-fold interface, for PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, ODBC.
• cpphs-1.7: A liberalised re-implementation of cpp, the C pre-processor.
• haskell-chart-0.11: A library for generating 2D Charts and Plots
• haskell-atom-0.0.5: A DSL for embedded hard realtime applications.
• haskell-hmatrix-0.5.2.2: Linear algebra and numerical computations
• haskell-network-2.2.1.3: Networking-related facilities
• haskell-hxt-8.3.1: A collection of tools for processing XML with Haskell.

Dozens of other packages have been added as well. Interestingly, a handful of new Haskell games have been published.

Arch Haskell News: May 10 2009

Another update, since there was a bit of a package backlog.

Hackage now has 1265 (+14) Haskell packages, of which 1109 (+14) (87.7%) have been natively packaged for Arch in AUR.  All these packages are available via AUR, using the “yaourt” tool.

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

Concurrency

• haskell-threadmanager-0.1.1: Simple thread management

Control

• haskell-mtlx-0.1.1: Monad transformer library with type indexes,\nproviding ‘free’ copies.
• haskell-level-monad-0.3.1: Non-Determinism Monad for Level-Wise Search
• haskell-tree-monad-0.2.1: Non-Determinism Monad for Tree Search
• haskell-monadiccp-0.5.2: Constraint Programming
• haskell-monad-ran-0.1.0: Fast monads and monad transformers
• haskell-buster-1.2: Almost but not quite entirely unlike FRP

Cryptography

• haskell-hopenssl-1.2: FFI bindings to OpenSSL’s EVP digest interface

Data

• haskell-gpcsets-0.9.0.0: Generalized Pitch Class Sets for Haskell.
• haskell-hmpfr-0.2: Haskell binding to MPFR library
• haskell-hinze-streams-1.0: Streams and Unique Fixed Points

Database

• haskell-tokyocabinet-haskell-0.0.5: Haskell binding of Tokyo Cabinet

Devel

• haskell-visual-graphrewrite-0.3.2: Visualize the graph-rewrite steps of a Haskell program
• cabal2arch-0.5.2: Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages

Graphics

• haskell-hgl-3.2.0.0: A simple graphics library based on X11 or Win32
• haskell-opengl-2.2.1.1: A binding for the OpenGL graphics system
• haskell-glut-2.1.1.2: A binding for the OpenGL Utility Toolkit

Gui

• haskell-sybwidget-0.5.2: Library which aids constructing generic (SYB3-based) widgets

Language

• haskell-data-reify-0.3: Reify a recursive data structure into an explicit graph.
• hscolour-1.13: Colourise Haskell code.
• haskell-atom-0.0.3: A DSL for embedded hard realtime applications.

Math

• haskell-lazysplines-0.1: Differential solving with lazy splines
• haskell-vector-space-0.5.7: Vector & affine spaces, linear maps, and derivatives (requires ghc 6.9 or better)
• haskell-operads-0.7: Groebner basis computation for Operads.

Network

• haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.2.1: Fast, memory-efficient, low-level networking
• haskell-http-wget-0.0.0: Provide a simple HTTP client interface by wrapping the wget\ncommand line tool.
• haskell-network-2.2.1.1: Networking-related facilities

Text

• haskell-regex-tdfa-1.1.2: Replaces/Enhances Text.Regex

Web

• haskell-authenticate-0.0.0: Authentication methods for Haskell web applications.
• haskell-clientsession-0.0.0: Store session data in a cookie.
• haskell-urlencoded-0.1.0.1: Generate or process x-www-urlencoded data
• haskell-windowslive-0.1.1.1: Implements Windows Live Web Authentication and\nDelegated Authentication

Unclassified

• subtitles-0.0.1: Modify SRT subtitle files.
• haskell-elerea-0.6.0: A minimalistic FRP library
• haskell-hpc-strobe-0.1: Hpc-generated strobes for a running Haskell program

Arch Haskell News: Mar 14 2009

A regular update of Haskell in Arch Linux

Hackage now has 1122 Haskell packages, of which 974 have been natively packaged for Arch in AUR. That’s 12 new packages this week, and lots of updates as well.

Notable releases this week

• vintage-basic-1.0.1: Interpreter for microcomputer-era BASIC
• yi-0.6.0: The Haskell-Scriptable Editor
• haskell-core-0.1: External core parser and pretty printer.
• haskell-utf8-env-0.1: UTF-8 aware substitutes for functions in System.Environment
• haskell-hexpat-0.4: wrapper for expat, the fast XML parser
• haskell-xml-1.3.4: A simple XML library.
• haskell-polyparse-1.3: A variety of alternative parser combinator libraries.
• haskell-torch-0.1: Simple unit test library (or framework)

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

Codec

• haskell-sexpr-0.1.2: S-expression printer and parser

Compilers

• vintage-basic-1.0.1: Interpreter for microcomputer-era BASIC

Concurrency

• haskell-chp-1.2.0: An implementation of concurrency ideas from Communicating Sequential Processes
• haskell-future-2.0.0: Supposed to mimics and enhance proposed C++ \”future\” features
• haskell-semaphore-plus-0.1: Various concurrency abstractions built on top of semaphores

Control

• haskell-stateful-mtl-1.0.7: Typeclass instances for monad transformer stacks with an ST thread at the bottom.
• haskell-streamproc-1.2: Stream Processer Arrow
• haskell-mtlx-0.1: Monad transformer library with type indexes,\nproviding ‘free’ copies.
• haskell-control-engine-0.0.3: A parallel producer/consumer engine (thread pool)
• haskell-monadlib-3.5.2: A collection of monad transformers.
• haskell-monadiccp-0.4: Package for Constraint Programming

Cryptography

• haskell-hopenssl-1.1: FFI bindings to OpenSSL’s EVP digest interface

Data

• haskell-data-accessor-template-0.2.1: Utilities for accessing and manipulating fields of records
• haskell-ranges-0.1:
• haskell-algebra-0.0.0.1: Algebraic structures
• haskell-fraction-0.0.1.0: Fractions
• haskell-queuelike-1.0.0: A library of queuelike data structures, both functional and stateful.

Devel

• yi-0.6.0: The Haskell-Scriptable Editor
• haskell-sparsebit-0.5: Sparse bitmaps for pattern match coverage
• ghc-core-0.4.3: Display GHC’s core and assembly output in a pager
• cheatsheet-1.6: A Haskell cheat sheet in PDF and literate formats.

Graphics

• haskell-ftgl-1.2: Portable TrueType font rendering for OpenGL using the Freetype2 library

Gui

• haskell-terminfo-0.3.0.2: Haskell bindings to the terminfo library.
• haskell-vty-3.1.8.4: A simple terminal access library

Language

• haskell-core-0.1: External core parser and pretty printer.

System

• make-hard-links-0.2: Change duplicated files into hard-links.
• haskell-utf8-env-0.1: UTF-8 aware substitutes for functions in System.Environment
• haskell-core-0.1: External core parser and pretty printer.
• husky-0.3: A simple command line calculator.

Testing

• haskell-torch-0.1: Simple unit test library (or framework)

Text

• haskell-regexpr-symbolic-0.4: Regular expressions via symbolic manipulation
• haskell-xml-1.3.4: A simple XML library.
• haskell-polyparse-1.3: A variety of alternative parser combinator libraries.

Web

• happs-tutorial-0.8: A Happstack Tutorial that is its own web 2.0-type demo.
• haskell-happstack-helpers-0.21: Convenience functions for Happstack.

Xml

• haskell-hexpat-pickle-0.2: XML picklers based on hexpat, source-code-similar to those of the HXT package
• haskell-hexpat-0.4: wrapper for expat, the fast XML parser

The Arch Haskell Team maintains the Haskell toolchain on Arch Linux. You can join us in #arch-haskell on freenode.org, or on the mailing list.

Arch Haskell News: Feb 28 2009

A regular update of Haskell in Arch Linux

Arch now has 945 Haskell packages in AUR. That’s an increase of 11 new packages this week. Well done everyone!

Cryptography

• haskell-digest-0.0.0.4: Various cryptographic hashes for bytestrings; CRC32 and Adler32 for now.

Data

• haskell-xcb-types-0.5.1: Parses XML files used by the XCB project
• haskell-data-accessor-mtl-0.2: Use Accessor to access state in mtl State monad class
• haskell-data-accessor-monads-fd-0.2: Use Accessor to access state in monads-fd State monad class
• haskell-data-accessor-transformers-0.2: Use Accessor to access state in transformers State monad
• haskell-typical-0.0.1: Type level numbers, vectors, list. This lib needs to be extended.
• haskell-aern-rntorm-plot-0.1.2: GL plotting of polynomial function enclosures (PFEs)
• haskell-aern-rntorm-0.4.9.1: polynomial function enclosures (PFEs) approximating exact real functions
• haskell-aern-real-0.9.9: arbitrary precision interval arithmetic for approximating exact real numbers
• haskell-text-icu-0.1: Bindings to the ICU library
• haskell-text-0.1: An efficient packed Unicode text type
• haskell-binary-0.5: Binary serialisation for Haskell values using lazy ByteStrings
• haskell-pointedlist-0.3.1: A zipper-like comonad which works as a list, tracking a position.

Database

• haskell-hdbc-mysql-0.4: MySQL driver for HDBC
• haskell-hdbc-tuple-0.0.1: Type save tuples for HDBC

Devel

• c2hs-0.16.0: C->Haskell FFI tool that gives some cross-language type safety
• cabal2arch-0.5: Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages
• hackage2hwn-0.5: Convert Hackage RSS feeds to wiki format for publishing on Haskell.org

Graphics

• haskell-hieroglyph-1.2: Purely functional 2D drawing
• haskell-chalkboard-0.1: Combinators for building and processing 2D images.
• haskell-chart-0.10: A library for generating 2D Charts and Plots

Gui

• haskell-barrie-0.4.1: Declarative Gtk GUI library
• haskell-hcl-1.4: High-level library for building command line interfaces.

Math

• haskell-aern-net-0.2.1: Compositional lazy dataflow networks for exact real number computation

System

• haskell-hdaemonize-0.1: utilities for UNIX daemon writing

Testing

• haskell-test-framework-quickcheck-0.2.1: QuickCheck support for the test-framework package.
• haskell-test-framework-hunit-0.2.1: HUnit support for the test-framework package.
• haskell-test-framework-0.2.1: Framework for running and organising tests, with HUnit and QuickCheck support
• husky-0.2: A simple command line calculator.

Text

• haskell-regex-tdfa-0.97.4: Accurate POSIX extended regular expression library
• haskell-rjson-0.3.7: A reflective JSON serializer/parser.

The Arch Haskell Team maintains the Haskell toolchain on Arch Linux. You can join us in #arch-haskell on freenode.org, or on the mailing list.

Arch Haskell News: Feb 21 2009

A regular update of Haskell in Arch Linux

Arch now has 934 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 8 new packages in the last 4 days. Well done everyone!

Noteworthy updates

• hipmunk: 2D physics for Haskell

The following packages, by category, were released or updated this week.

Concurrency

• haskell-avar-0.0.4: Mutable variables with Exception handling and concurrency support.

Control

• haskell-monadiccp-0.3: Package for Constraint Programming
• haskell-monad-loops-0.3.0.2: Monadic loops
• haskell-pqueue-mtl-1.0.5: Fully encapsulated monad transformers with queuelike functionality.
• haskell-stateful-mtl-1.0.4: Stateful monad transformers with pure evaluation semantics.

Cryptography

• haskell-hsopenssl-0.5.2: (Part of) OpenSSL binding for Haskell
• haskell-digest-0.0.0.3: Various cryptographic hashes for bytestrings; CRC32 and Adler32 for now.
• haskell-crypto-4.2.0: Collects together existing Haskell cryptographic functions into a package

Data

• haskell-xcb-types-0.5.0: Parses XML files used by the XCB project
• haskell-algebra-0.0.0.0: Algebraic structures

Database

• haskell-hdbc-mysql-0.3: MySQL driver for HDBC

Devel

• haskell-cabal-1.6.0.2: A framework for packaging Haskell software

Gui

• haskell-barrie-0.4: Pure Gtk GUI library
• haskell-haskeline-0.6.1.3: A command-line interface for user input, written in Haskell.

Graphics

• hipmunkplayground-0.2: A playground for testing Hipmunk.
• haskell-hipmunk-0.2.1: A Haskell binding for Chipmunk.

Network

• haskell-lucu-0.2.1: HTTP Daemonic Library
• haskell-http-4000.0.4: A library for client-side HTTP

System

• haskell-zoneinfo-0.3: ZoneInfo library.
• husky-0.1: A simple command line calculator.
• haskell-bindings-0.0.1: Low level bindings for foreign libraries

Web

• haskell-tinyurl-0.1.0: Use TinyURL to compress URLs

The Arch Haskell Team maintains the Haskell toolchain on Arch Linux. You can join us in #arch-haskell on freenode.org, or on the mailing list.

Arch Haskell News: Feb 16 2009

A regular update of Haskell in Arch Linux

Arch now has 926 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 27 new packages in the last 8 days, or 3.38 new Haskell apps a day. Well done everyone!

Noteworthy updates

• The functional reactive grapefruit gui library supported
  
• haskelldb suite now supported
• gtk2hs 0.10 now in [community]
  

Installing Packages from AUR

To install AUR packages, we recommend yaourt, as in:

yaourt --noconfirm  --lightbg --aur -S haskell-haha

You may want to alias that command line. Here’s an example from this week’s releases:

The reason to use yaourt over cabal-install is that AUR packages correctly resolve all versions and, more importantly, C library and other system dependencies. Packages will also be pulled from the binary releases in [extra] and [community] where available, saving you build times.

New and Updated Packages

We now present package info sorted by category — let us know if this helps!

Algorithm

• haskell-higherorder-0.0: Some higher order functions for Bool and []

Codec

• haskell-stb-image-0.1.3: A wrapper around Sean Barrett’s JPEG/PNG decoder

Compilers

• haskell-llvm-0.6.4.0: Bindings to the LLVM compiler toolkit

Control

• haskell-pqueue-mtl-1.0.2: Fully encapsulated monad transformers with queuelike functionality.
• haskell-stateful-mtl-1.0.2: Stateful monad transformers with pure evaluation semantics.
• haskell-monad-loops-0.3.0.1: Monadic loops
• haskell-event-monad-0.0.1.0: Event-graph simulation monad transformer

Cryptography

• haskell-sha-1.0.4: Implementations of the SHA suite of message digest functions

Data

• haskell-data-spacepart-20090215.0: Deprecated. Now called \”spacepart\”. Space partitioning data structures.
• haskell-spacepart-0.1.0.0: Space partition data structures. Currently only a QuadTree.
• haskell-filestore-0.2: Interface for versioning file stores.
• haskell-macho-0.2: Parser for Mach-O object format.
• haskell-grapefruit-records-0.0.0.0: A record system
• haskell-pointedlist-0.1: A zipper-like comonad which works as a list, tracking a position.
• haskell-stream-0.3: A library for manipulating infinite lists.
• haskell-clase-2009.2.11: Cursor Library for A Structured Editor
• haskell-dequeue-0.1.2: A typeclass and an implementation for double-ended queues.
• haskell-nthable-0.1:
• haskell-perfecthash-0.1.3: A perfect hashing library for mapping bytestrings to values.

Database

HSQL

• haskell-hsql-postgresql-1.7.3: A Haskell Interface to PostgreSQL via the PQ library

HDBC

• haskell-hdbc-mysql-0.2: MySQL driver for HDBC

HaskellDB

• haskell-haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3-0.12: HaskellDB support for the HDBC SQLite driver.
• haskell-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-0.12: HaskellDB support for the HDBC PostgreSQL driver.
• haskell-haskelldb-hdbc-odbc-0.12: HaskellDB support for the HDBC ODBC driver.
• haskell-haskelldb-hdbc-0.12: HaskellDB support for HDBC. You will also need one\nor more back-end specific packages.
• haskell-haskelldb-0.12: SQL unwrapper for Haskell.

Devel

• darcs-2.2.1: a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system
• djinn-2009.2.8: Generate Haskell code from a type

Graphics

• haskell-vect-0.4.0: A low-dimensional linear algebra library, tailored to computer graphics.
• haskell-sdl-mixer-0.5.5: Binding to libSDL_mixer

Gui

• haskell-haskeline-0.6.1.2: A command-line interface for user input, written in Haskell.
• haskell-grapefruit-examples-0.0.0.0: Examples using the Grapefruit library
• haskell-grapefruit-ui-gtk-0.0.0.0: GTK+-based backend for declarative user interface programming
• haskell-grapefruit-ui-0.0.0.0: Declarative user interface programming
• haskell-grapefruit-frp-0.0.0.0: Functional Reactive Programming core

Language

• haskell-basic-0.1.5.0: Embedded BASIC

Math

• haskell-probability-0.2.2: Probabilistic Functional Programming
• haskell-random-fu-0.0.0.2: Random number generation

Network

• haskell-yogurt-0.3: A MUD client library
• haskell-simplesmtpclient-0.2: Very simple SMTP Client

System

• haskell-zoneinfo-0.2: ZoneInfo library.

Text

• haskell-regex-tdfa-0.97.3: Accurate POSIX extended regular expression library
• haskell-hyphenate-0.1: Text hyphenation algorithm
• haskell-encode-1.2: Encoding character data
• haskell-sexpr-0.1.1: S-expression printer and parser

Web

• haskell-hsp-0.4.5: Haskell Server Pages is a library for writing dynamic server-side web pages.

The Arch Haskell Team maintains the Haskell toolchain on Arch Linux. You can join us in #arch-haskell on freenode.org, or on the mailing list.

Functional reactive grapefruit

Grapefruit is a new suite of libraries for functional reactive-style GUIs layered on top of GTK (via gtk2hs), announced today. Besides being a modern FRP gui library, it notably uses arrow syntax to describe gui components.

Arrow syntax is a bit of a rarity in Haskell code:

    addA f g = proc x -> do
                    y <- f -< x
                    z <- g -< x
                    returnA -< y + z

Will build the computation:

All the components are packaged here for Arch Linux.

In other funky Haskell gui news, haskell-haha has also been released and packaged for Arch, and lets us do vector graphics in ascii in the terminal…. hell yeah!
Here’s a video of haha at work, and how to get it via cabal (yaourt also works fine):

SDL bindings for Haskell

Packages for the Haskell bindings to SDL are now available in Arch.:

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of “Civilization: Call To Power.”

Many parts of the library are available:

• haskell-sdl
• haskell-sdl-ttf
• haskell-sdl-gfx
• haskell-sdl-image
• haskell-sdl-mixer
• haskell-sdl-mpeg

The new Haskell game library is built on top, as is the new purely functional user interface library.