[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: November 8, 2005

[John Goerzen]

                     Haskell Weekly News: November 8, 2005

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New Releases

     * Haskell-mode 2.1. Stefan Monnier recently [3]released version 2.1 of
       his haskell editing mode for Emacs.

   3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12445

     * Gtk2hs 0.9.10. Duncan Coutts announced that the latest version of the
       GTK bindings for Haskell is now [4]available. Major new features
       include the Cairo vector graphics library bindings, Pango text layout
       code, new Gtk+ 2.8 APIs, and a Windows installer.

   4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12436

     * Frown 0.6. Ralf Hinze [5]announced the first release of Frown, a
       LALR(k) parser generator for Haskell. Frown has a number of
       interesting features and is considered beta-quality at this time.

   5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12403

     * network-alt 0.3 and hsgnutls 0.2.1. Einar Karttunen [6]announced the
       availability of new versions of these two libraries. network-alt is an
       alternative networking library designed to have a nicer API and better
       performance. hsgnutls is a TLS/SSL layer atop the GNU TLS library,
       supporting both client and server applications.

   6. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3904

Calls for Participation

   Top 10 articles. Kenneth Hoste posted a [7]request for people to
   contribute articles about various Haskell subjects. Each article will list
   the 10 most famous or frequently used things about that particular
   subject, and will be posted through The Monad.Reader.

   7. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/9050

Discussion

   Time libraries. Ashley Yakeley started a lively [8]thread about time
   libraries in Haskell.

   8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3882

Conferences

   Haskell Workshop Steering Committee. Johan Jeuring [9]announced that ACM
   SIGPLAN has approved a Haskell Workshop Steering Committee to offer help
   and advice to the organizers of the workshop.

   9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8975

Darcs Corner

   Darcs 1.0.4rc2 is out. David Roundy [10]announced the release of Darcs
   1.0.4rc2, the second and hopefully last candidate before the 1.0.4
   release.

  10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8620

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