[Haskell-cafe] 500 Haskell packages in Arch Linux

[Don Stewart]

Monday was something of a landmark, as the 500th Haskell package was
added to the Arch Linux distribution.

I've written about the approach we took to fully automating the
construction of native packages from Hackage,

    http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/08/21#the_500

As well as a survey of 10 cool packages that are a little unknown.

And some fun stats. On Hackage we have:

    * 723 unique packages
    * Over a million lines of Haskell code
    * 2600 pages of API documentation

And in Arch, there are:

    6 Erlang packages
    21 OCaml packages
    28 Lisp packages
    101 Ruby packages
    495 Python packages

and now,

    504 Haskell packages 
    
:)

-- Don