[aur-general] 500 Haskell packages now in AUR

[Roberto Alsina]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:34:57 Don Stewart wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I miswrote!

I meant "apply something similar to this to Python's PyPI, so Arch gets a 
bunch of python packages" ;-)

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