Arch Haskell News: Oct 12 2008

[Don Stewart]

News about Haskell on Arch Linux
http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/arch-haskell-news-oct-12-2008/

Arch now has 624 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 15 new packages in the last 7 days.

Planning is also underway for the GHC 6.10 release, and the 6.10 release
candidate is in testing.

Noteworthy

* cabal-install-0.6.0: “The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage.”
* haskell-cabal-1.6.0.1: “A framework for packaging Haskell software”
* haskell-bytestring-0.9.1.3: “Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a list interface”
* haskell-transactional-events-0.1.0.0: “Transactional events, based on Concurrent ML semantics”

Full details on the site.