[aur-general] 500 Haskell packages now in AUR

[Don Stewart]

ralsina:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:15:29 Loui wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:09:48AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > > 10 weeks after the Arch Haskell group started, there are now 500 Haskell
> > > packages bundled up for Arch.
> > >
> > > I've written about how we automated the construction of Arch packages
> > > from Haskell Cabal format, via the cabal2arch tool, and a small survey
> > > of 10 nice packages from the set, here,
> > >
> > >     http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/08/21#the_500
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >   Don
> >
> > Nice. Maybe AUR should be rewritten in Haskell too. Ha Ha.
> 
> Is anyone interested on a similar approach to Python's PyPI? It sounds like a 
> fun project!

The main Haskell package index, Hackage, much like PyPI, has just been rewritten
using HAppS (http://happs.org/) -- it'll be going live soon.

-- Don