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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

  • Update packaging guidelines for Haskell packages and libraries
  • 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

Package Reviews

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

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

Other Potential packages

  • missingh
  • HsColour
  • vty

Current packages in Fedora

  • alex
  • curry
  • darcs
  • ghc
  • ghc-gtk2hs (formerly gtk2hs)
  • 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

SIG Members

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