Stack (Haskell)
| Initial release | June 23, 2015 [1] |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.3.1 [2]
/ April 29, 2020 |
| Written in | Haskell |
| Operating system | Any Unix-like, Microsoft Windows |
| Size | 60 megabytes |
| Available in | English |
| License | BSD |
| Website | www |
Stack is a tool to build Haskell projects and manage their dependencies. It uses the Cabal library but with a curated version of the Hackage repository called Stackage.[3][4]
Stack competes against Cabal's binary cabal-install[5] and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems.[6] It does not, however, provide its own package format, but uses existing *.cabal files and complements projects with an additional stack.yaml file.
References
- ^ "stack 0.1 released". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ "Release v2.3.1". GitHub repository commercialhaskell/stack. Retrieved 30 Jun 2020.
- ^ "Stackage Server". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ "Haskell Communities and Activities Report Thirty Second Edition — May 2017" (PDF). Mihai Maruseac. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
- ^ "Why is stack not cabal?". Retrieved 27 January 2016.
This blog post is intended to answer two very frequest [sic] questions about stack: how is it different from Cabal? And: Why was it developed as a separate project instead of being worked on with Cabal?
- ^ "What do Haskellers want? Over a thousand tell us". Retrieved 13 January 2016.
Package management with cabal is the single worst aspect of using Haskell. Asked if improvements to package management would make a difference to their future choice of Haskell for a project, 38% said it would be "crucial" and a further 29% said it would be "important". Comments connected cabal with words like hell, pain, awful, sucks, frustrating, and hideous. Only this topic showed such grave dissatisfaction.
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