Stack (Haskell)

stack
Initial release	June 23, 2015; 9 years ago
Stable release	2.7.1 / May 8, 2021; 3 years ago
Written in	Haskell
Operating system	Unix, Unix-like, Windows
Size	60 megabytes
Available in	English
License	BSD
Website	www.haskellstack.org

Stack is a tool to build projects and manage their dependencies for the programming language Haskell. It uses the Cabal library but with a curated version of the Hackage software repository named Stackage.^[3]^[4]

Stack competes against Cabal's binary file cabal-install^[5] and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems.^[6] However, it does not provide its own package format, but uses extant *.cabal files and complements projects with an added stack.yaml file.

References

^ "stack 0.1 released". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
^ "Release v2.7.1". GitHub repository commercialhaskell/stack. Retrieved 11 Jun 2021.
^ "Stackage Server". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
^ "Haskell Communities and Activities Report Thirty Second Edition" (PDF). Mihai Maruseac. May 2017. 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.

External links

Official website stack on GitHub

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[1] "stack 0.1 released". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

[2] "Release v2.7.1". GitHub repository commercialhaskell/stack. Retrieved 11 Jun 2021.

[3] "Stackage Server". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

[Report32ED-4] "Haskell Communities and Activities Report Thirty Second Edition" (PDF). Mihai Maruseac. May 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-10.

[5] "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?

[6] "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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