Haskell SIG

Mission

The mission of the Haskell Special Interest Group is to encourage, grow and guide the packaging of Haskell projects in Fedora.

Communication

Mailing list

We have a mailing-list fedora-haskell-list (archives ), since 13 Feb 2008.

IRC

We have an IRC channel #fedora-haskell on Freenode.

Haskell Platform support

Haskell Platform in Fedora status:

• F11 supports haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1
• F12 will support haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2

haskell-platform for ghc-6.12

For F12 we still depend on ghc extralibs which will disappear in ghc-6.12.

So for ghc-6.12 we will need to add packages for:

• haskell-src
• html
• parallel
• parsec
• QuickCheck
• regex-base
• regex-compat
• regex-posix
• stm
• xhtml

to support the next major version of haskell-platform

Tasks

• finalize docsbeat for f12
• drop ghc extralibs for haskell-platform (for ghc-6.12)
• build ghc for EPEL
• have a SIG meeting on IRC
• move bugzilla to a separate mailing-list?
• port arch2cabal features to cabal2spec
• pkgkit extension for cabal-install
• update cabal2spec/haskell to latest templates
• Haskell_Spin submitted to Spins SIG
• autogeneration of packages for a "testing" repository of autogenerated all-of-hackage. Pull from this (with a human eye) to make Fedora packages.
• Bootstrap ghc on ppc64 (bug 239713 ) and ia64

Packaging

We have the Haskell Packaging Guidelines in place with template .spec files for libraries and programs. Please use them when submitting Haskell packages for review. cabal2spec generates .spec files from cabal packages using up to date templates. After a package has been accepted please remember to include haskell-sig in the CVS Admin Request.

Package reviews

Open Package reviews which are CC fedora-haskell-list.

• hlint
• xmobar
• ghc-hinotify
• emacs-haskell

Closed Package reviews which are CC fedora-haskell-list.

Package Wishlist

• pandoc (requires zip-archive)

Bugs

Open Haskell bugs

Current packages in Fedora

Haskell SIG packages in pkgdb

Programs

• alex, cabal2spec, cabal-install, cpphs, curry, darcs, ghc, haddock (haddock09 needed for ghc-6.8), happy, hscolour, hugs98, xmonad

Libraries

(prefixed by ghc-)

• cgi, editline, fgl, ghc-paths, gtk2hs, GLUT, haskell-src-exts, HTTP, network, OpenGL, tar, time, uniplate, utf8-string, X11, X11-xft, xmonad-contrib, zlib

SIG Members

• JensPetersen
• BryanSullivan
• YaakovNemoy
• ConradMeyer
• JeremyHinegardner
• GerardMilmeister
• TomMoertel
• MichelSalim
• RichardJones
• PeterLemenkov
• MilesSabin
• RajeshKrishnan
• zoglesby

Please add your name above if you want to help and contribute.

Fedora Haskell History

• 2009-09-29: haskell-platform added for f12
• 2008-02-13: fedora-haskell-list started
• 2007-05-10: Fedora SIG formed
• 2005-02-21: fedora-haskell@haskell.org mailing-list starts
• 2004-08-03: original Fedora Haskell project starts