network package

[Matthias Kilian]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:32:20AM -0800, Don Stewart wrote:
> > I have just built and installed ghc-6.8.2 on my linux box but I can't find
> > the network package. Has it been moved or left out?
> 
> It's not installed by default. You can find it on hackage.haskell.org,
> 
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-2.1.0.0

Yet it's still available in the extralibs tarball. Real slackers
just extract extralibs on top of the normal ghc source tarball to
get most (not all) of the beloved packages built for free.

Just FYI, here are some notes I scribbled down for myself a few
days ago when I did some work on the OpenBSD port of GHC (comparing
6.6.1 against 6.8.2 and comparing that against hackage.haskell.org):


New (wrt 6.6.1): array, bytestring, containers, directory, hpc,
old-locale, old-time, packedstring, parallel, pretty, process,
random.

Removed from the ghc sources (make separate ports fetching them
from hackage): HGL, X11. Note that X11-extras (i.e. port
x11/hs-x11-extras) is obsolete now.

Available in the extralibs distfile: HUnit, OpenGL, QuickCheck,
cgi, fgl, haskell-src, html, mtl, network, parallel, parsec,
regex-base, regex-compat, regex-posix, stm, time, xhtml.

Version info for packages (no version in "Hackage" column means same
version as for GHC-6.8.2):

Name			Dist	GHC-6.8.2	Hackage

Cabal			base	1.2.3.0
HUnit			extra	1.2.0.0
OpenGL			extra	2.2.1.1
QuickCheck		extra	1.1.0.0
array			base	0.1.0.0
base			base	3.0.1.0		n/a
bytestring		base	0.9.0.1		0.9.0.3
cgi			extra	3001.1.5.1
containers		base	0.1.0.1		0.1.0.0 (!)
directory		base	1.0.0.0
fgl			extra	5.4.1.1
filepath		base	1.1.0.0
ghc			base	6.8.2		n/a
haskell-src		extra	1.0.1.1
haskell98		base	1.0.1.0
hpc			base	0.5.0.0
html			extra	1.0.1.1
mtl			extra	1.1.0.0
network			extra	2.1.0.0
old-locale		base	1.0.0.0
old-time		base	1.0.0.0
packedstring		base	0.1.0.0
parallel		extra	1.0.0.0
parsec			extra	2.1.0.0
pretty			base	1.0.0.0
process			base	1.0.0.0
random			base	1.0.0.0
readline		base	1.0.1.0
regex-base		extra	0.72.0.1	0.91
regex-compat		extra	0.71.0.1	0.90
regex-posix		extra	0.72.0.2	0.91
rts			base	1.0		n/a
stm			extra	2.1.1.0
template-haskell	base(!)	2.2.0.0
time			extra	1.1.2.0
unix			base	2.3.0.0		2.2.0.0 (!)
xhtml			extra	3000.0.2.1


Ciao,
	Kili