Re: [Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

2008-12-11 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:13:00 +0100, Dougal Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using the commands: cabal update cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc I counted 927 entries. Unfortunately that's not a reliable means of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

2008-12-11 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:13 +, Dougal Stanton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Using the commands: > > cabal update > > cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc > > I counted 927 entries. > > > > Unfortunately that's not a reliable means of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

2008-12-11 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:00 +0100, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:35:24 +0100, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Hackage currently holds 914 applications and libraries. > > Using the commands: >cabal update >cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc > I counted

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

2008-12-11 Thread Dougal Stanton
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using the commands: > cabal update > cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc > I counted 927 entries. > Unfortunately that's not a reliable means of determining cabal packages. (Baffling, I know.) I think it actually lists t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

2008-12-11 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:35:24 +0100, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Hackage currently holds 914 applications and libraries. Using the commands: cabal update cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc I counted 927 entries. -- Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://functor.bamikanarie.com

[Haskell-cafe] Retrospective on 2008?

2008-12-10 Thread Don Stewart
I've been kicking the idea around of a 2008 retrospective. How did we do this year? After all, it has been a dramatic growth period (we're close to 600 people a day in #haskell now, for example, and many new faces!) Some ideas: * 10 best new libraries * 10 best new apps * 10 most infl