FreeBSD Haskell

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Our goal is to bring support for the Haskell programming language and all Haskell-related software to FreeBSD.

2012-06-03: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 and GHC 7.4.1 in the Ports Collection

Note that The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler and the Haskell Platform have been updated to versions 7.4.1 and 2012.2.0.0, respectively. At the same time, all Haskell ports have been updated to their latest working versions.

2012-02-13: Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 and GHC 7.0.4 in the Ports Collection

The recent updates for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and Haskell Platform has finally reached the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

2012-01-06: Yesod Now Available as Port

There has been a port created for the Yesod Web Framework, you can find it under www/hs-yesod in the development repository.

2011-12-18: Haskell Platform Updated to 2011.4.0.0, GHC to 7.0.4

Almost immediately after its release, Haskell Platform has been updated to 2011.4.0.0 for FreeBSD, together with GHC 7.0.4. Though note that it has not been integrated to the Ports Collection yet, due to the in-progress release cycle for 9.0-RELEASE.

2011-12-10: Happstack Now Available as Port

Besides the Snap Web Framework, ports for the Happstack Framework has been also created. It can be found under www/hs-happstack in the development repository.

2011-09-30: FreeBSD Haskell Maintainer's Toolkit

We have published a few quite useful scripts that help our work. We recommend you to use them if you are planning to contribute to our project. You can find them at pgj's web page and there is also some documentation about their usage.

2011-05-14: Haskell Platform Lands in the Ports Collection

We are pleased to announce that Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 (as devel/hs-haskell-platform) is now available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

2011-05-09: Updating GHC 7.0.3 and all Haskell ports

We are pleased to announce that GHC in ports tree is updated to 7.0.3 and other Haskell ports are also updated to their Haskell Platform versions or latest versions, whichever is applicable.

Port	Responsible	Status	Description
www/hs-happstack-lite	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	A subset of Happstack that is easier to learn but still very useful.
databases/hs-acid-state	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Use regular Haskell data structures as your database.
devel/hs-ixset	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Create and query sets that are indexed by multiple indices.
www/hs-happstack-plugins	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Support for automatically recompiling and reloading modules into a running server.
textproc/hs-jmacro	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Javascript syntax, functional syntax, hygienic names, compile-time guarantees of syntactic correctness, limited typechecking.
www/hs-happstack-hrp	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Use HSP templates with Happstack.
www/hs-happstack-heist	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Use Heist templates with Happstack.
www/hs-happstack-hamlet	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Support for using Hamlet templates with Happstack.
www/hs-happstack-hstringtemplate	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Use HStringTemplate with Happstack.
www/hs-web-routes	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	A collection of types and functions that ensure that URLs generated by an application are valid.
www/hs-digestive-functors	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Digestive functors is a library to generate and process HTML forms.
www/hs-digestive-functors-happstack	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	Happstack backend for the digestive-functors library.
www/hs-digestive-functors-hsp	pgj@freebsd.org	in queue	HSP frontend for the digestive-functors library.