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2007-04-12
ndp-0.1: nested data parallelism in Haskell. Roman Leshchinskiy announced the first release of the NDP package, a library for writing nested data-parallel programs in Haskell, on shared-memory multiprocessors. The NDP library is part of the Data Parallel Haskell project. The paper Data Parallel Haskell: a status report describes the underlying design and go through an example program.
binary 0.3: bigger, better, faster. Lennart Kolmodin announced binary 0.3. The 'binary' package provides efficient serialization of Haskell values to and from lazy ByteStrings. ByteStrings constructed this way may then be written to disk, written to the network, or further processed (e.g. stored in memory directly, or compressed in memory with zlib or bzlib). It's available through Hackage, or via its homepage.
Text.HTML.Chunks. Matthew Sackman announced the Text.HTML.Chunks library, a clone with improvements of the Perl HTML::Chunks module. The main achievement is the use of template-haskell to combine the template into the code at compile time. This then allows for static checking that the variables/fields that the templates are expecting are indeed being provided and that the templates the code is trying to use do indeed exist. The template is then incorporated within the code, removing the dependency on the template.
Phooey 1.0 and GuiTV 0.3. Conal Elliott announced a new version of Phooey, a library for functional user interfaces. Highlights in this release: uses new TypeCompose package, which includes a simple implementation of data-driven computation; new Applicative functor interface; eliminated the catch-all Phooey.hs module. Now import any one of Graphics.UI.Phooey.{Monad ,Applicative,Arrow}; Phooey.Monad has two different styles of output widgets, made by owidget and owidget' and more. Phooey is also used in GuiTV, a library for composable interfaces and 'tangible values'.
The real Monad Transformer. Henning Thielemann announced the real monad transformer! It has been argued that people avoid Haskell because of terms from Category theory like 'Monad'. This problem can now be solved by a wrapper which presents all the internet entirely without monads! Start the parallel Haskell wiki. Of course the tool is written in Haskell, that is, Haskell helps solving problems which only exist because of Haskell. Bug reports and feature requests can be tracked at here.
GHC 6.6.1 Release Candidate. Ian Lynagh announced the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1. Snapshots beginning with 6.6.20070409 are release candidates for 6.6.1. You can download snapshots from here.
Haskell Cryptographic Library 4.0.3. Dominic Steinitz announced the release of a new version of the Haskell Cryptographic Library based on the crypto proposal. See the crypto home for more details. There is now no dependency on NewBinary. The downside is the library contains no support for ASN.1 which will be released in separate package.
TagSoup library 0.1. Neil Mitchell announced TagSoup, a library for extracting information out of unstructured HTML code, sometimes known as tag-soup. The HTML does not have to be well formed, or render properly within any particular framework. This library is for situations where the author of the HTML is not cooperating with the person trying to extract the information, but is also not trying to hide the information. The library provides a basic data type for a list of unstructured tags, a parser to convert HTML into this tag type, and useful functions and combinators for finding and extracting information.
ParseP library 0.1. Twan van Laarhoven announced a generalized/improved variant of the ReadP parser library. Unlike ReadP ParseP can handle any type of token, and actually generates error messages in case something goes wrong. It is also possible to use things other then a list as an input stream, for example ByteStrings.
Debian library for Haskell. Jeremy Shaw announced the availability of a library for interacting with the Debian system from Haskell. This library does not (currently) depend on dpkg or apt for any functionality. Contributions are welcome, and the library is available from Hackage. Well-Support Modules: parsing/Printing Debian control files, parsing/printing sources.list files, comparing Debian version numbers, a data type for encoding Debian relations and more.
Call for Contributions: HC and A Report. Andres Loeh mentioned that it is nearly time for the twelfth edition of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report. If you are working on any project that is in some way related to Haskell, write a short entry and submit it. Even if the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not important enough -- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway!
System.FilePath 1.0. Neil Mitchell announced the System.FilePath 1.0 release! The FilePath library is a library for manipulating FilePaths in a cross platform way on both Windows and Unix. Documentation.
FGL - A Functional Graph Library. Martin Erwig announced a new release of the Functional Graph Library for Haskell. This release fixes some bugs in the implementation of several basic inspection functions.
TypeCompose 0.0. Conal Elliott announced TypeCompose, which provides some classes and instances for forms of type composition. It also includes a very simple implementation of data-driven computation.
Haskell SWF generation library. Jeremy Shaw announced the availability of an Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF) library for Haskell. It is primarily useful for compiling ActionScript assembly into a .swf file.
New web-devel mailinglist for Haskell. Marc Weber announced a new web-devel mailinglist on haskell.org has been set up. You can subscribe here.
strict-0.1: strict versions of Haskell types. Roman Leshchinskiy announced the first release of package 'strict' which provides strict versions of standard Haskell types. At the moment, pairs, Maybe and Either are defined. The library is available from hackage.
Chess in Haskell. Steffen Mazanek announced a straightforward implementation of a chess engine in Haskell, available as a tutorial exercise.
storylen: story word count and categorization. Dino Morelli announced storylen, a command-line utility that counts the words in files and classifies them into story types (short story, novella, novel...). Its operation and output are very similar to the *nix program wc. This is useful for books in plain ascii text.