[arch-haskell] Arch Haskell News: Jan 11 2009

[Don Stewart]

Arch Haskell News: Jan 11 2009

Hey all, welcome to the first Arch Haskell News of 2009. (News about
Haskell on the Arch Linux platform).

    Arch now has 827 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 93 new packages in the last 48 days, or 1.9 new Haskell
apps and libraries a day over the holiday season. Well done everyone!.

Noteworthy

    * lhc-0.6.20081127: “LHC Haskell Compiler”
    * cabal2arch-0.4.2: “Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages”
    * timberc-1.0.2: “The Timber Compiler.”
    * haskell-x11-1.4.5: “A binding to the X11 graphics library”
    * haskell-curl-1.3.2.2: “Haskell binding to libcurl”
    * alex-2.3.1: “Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskel
    * haskell-bytestring-trie-0.1: “Efficient map from strings to values.”
    * haskell-llvm-0.5.0.1: “Bindings to the LLVM compiler toolkit”
    * tetris-0.27178: “A 2-D clone of Tetris”
    * haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.1.4: “Fast and memory efficient low-level networking”
    * haskell-hdbc-1.1.6: “Haskell Database Connectivity”

    http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/arch-haskell-news-jan-11-2009/

Other news: 

    * llvm support,
        http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/llvm-haskell-bindings/

    * new hdbc release,
        http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/hdbc-haskell-database-suite-updated/

    * salvia, new web framework, supported
        http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/new-haskell-web-framework-salvia-and-orchid/

Bring on 2009 and the era of ubiquitous Haskell!

-- Don