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.

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