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.

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