[Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:13:00 +0100, Dougal Stanton  
<dougal at dougalstanton.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl at chello.nl>  
> wrote:
>>
>> Using the commands:
>>  cabal update
>>  cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc
>> I counted 927 entries.
>>
>
> Unfortunately that's not a reliable means of determining cabal
> packages. (Baffling, I know.) I think it actually lists things you
> have installed from other sources, too. For instance:
>
>
> $ cabal list | grep cairo
>  * cairo
>       Homepage:  
> http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2006/01/26/cairo-eye-candy/
> $ cabal install cairo
> cabal: There is no package named cairo
>

I changed the commands to:
   cabal update
   cabal list | fgrep "      Latest version available: " | wc
Now I count 915 entries.


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Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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