Hey all, A week ago I announced a group had formed to improve Haskell support in the Arch package system. One week ago, the Haskell on Arch story was rather sketchy, GHC had just been orphaned as a package from 'extra', and only half a dozen apps and libs were available in binary form. 20 or so extra Haskell packages were available in AUR. A week later, a lot has happened. We've now completely automated the packaging of Haskell apps and libraries, via a new tool, cabal2arch. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17471 which is able to package 90% of the available Haskell software without user intervention. This is the first time this has been done on any distro (Gentoo has similar Haskell package coverage, but it is done manually) This enabled us to create a Haskell overlay repository, of binary packages (x86_64 only): http://code.haskell.org/arch/x86_64 with more than 350 packages. Automatically built. An RSS feed of new things added is also available: http://code.haskell.org/arch/x86_64/haskell.xml Begining with the #arch-haskell IRC channel, we've now got a mailing list and extensive documentation on the wiki. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines And the autopackaging has made it possible to migrate more than 300 recipes for building Haskell software into AUR. I think the rapid progress is a testament to the quality packaging infrastructure in Arch. Good work! The next steps are to un-orphan GHC, and the other Haskell things Simo can't work on now, and to then ensure an appropriate core toolset is available in extra. Given we don't have a Haskell-expert dev now, advice on how to proceed here would be welcome. Cheers, Don