Haskell SIG

Haskell Special Interest Group

Mission

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

Currently we do not have an independent IRC channel. Some members may be found on #fedora-devel or #haskell on Freenode.

Tasks

• Complete and submit the current revised draft packaging guidelines for haddock documentation handling, etc
• Submit various commonly used libraries for Package Review
• srpm packages for DrIFT, X11, c2hs, cpphs, fps, hs-plugins, hscolour, hsh, hslogger, missingh, vty, wxhaskell, xmobar, xmonad at unsubmitted srpm packages are some good starting candidates
• update Bryan's cabal-rpm to generate .spec that follow our Packaging Guidelines
• bootstrap ghc on ppc64 (bug 239713 ) and ia64
• build ghc for EPEL

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. There is a script cabal2spec included in the Fedora ghc package which generates initial compliant .spec files from cabal packages.

Package Reviews

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

• ghc-X11 (bug 426751 )
• ghc-HTTP
• cabal-install
• xmonad (bug 426753 )
• ghc-utf8-string (bug 426750 )
• ghc-X11-xft (bug 426752 )
• ghc-xmonad-contrib (bug 426754 )

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

Other Potential packages

• emacs-haskell
• cabal-rpm
• missingh
• HsColour
• vty

Current packages in Fedora

Haskell SIG packages in pkgdb

• alex
• curry
• darcs
• ghc
• ghc-gtk2hs (formerly gtk2hs)
• ghc-zlib
• haddock (now part of ghc-6.10)
• haddock09 (needed for ghc-6.8)
• happy
• hugs98

Comments

I'm tinkering with cabal-rpm to make sure it can create *good* Fedora packages for most cabal files. I'm using zlib as a test spec in the review process to get a feel for the little nuances that cabal-rpm has to work out. - YaakovNemoy

I've drafted up a feature request - Yaakov Nemoy

• Features/GoodHaskellSupport

SIG Members

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

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