A new release of pugs, the world’s first Perl 6 implementation, has occured, and the Arch Linux packages for Pugs have been updated to build with both ghc 6.8.x and ghc 6.10 (now in the [testing] repository).

$ pugs ______ / __ / __ __ ______ ______ (P)erl 6 __// / / __ / ___ (U)ser's / _ / ___ (G)olfing __ ____/ ____ /_____ (S)ystem /__/ /___/ /___/ /____/ /____/ Version: 6.2.13.11 /___/ Copyright 2005-2008, The Pugs Contributors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Web: http://pugscode.org/ Email: perl6-compiler@perl.org Welcome to Pugs -- Perl6 User's Golfing System Type :h for help. Loading Prelude... done. pugs> 1 + 2 3

The main changes required were to the haskell-pugs-compat, haskell-pugs-drift 2.2.3.0-2 and haskell-hssyck 0.44-2 packages to add “–constraint=’base<4′” to ensure they built with the correct base version.

Enjoy the distro packages for your favorite Haskell applications.