Stack (software)

This article is about the Haskell Tool Stack. For the data type and concept, see Stack (abstract data type) and Stack.
stack
Initial release June 23, 2015 (2015-06-23) [1]
Stable release
1.1.2 [2] / May 20, 2016 (2016-05-20)
Development status Active
Written in Haskell
Operating system Any Unix-like, Microsoft Windows
Size 9 megabytes
Available in English
License BSD
Website www.haskellstack.org

Stack is a tool to build Haskell projects and manage their dependencies. It uses the Cabal library together with (by default) a curated version of the Hackage repository.[3]

Stack competes against Cabal's binary cabal-install[4] and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems.[5] It does not, however, provide its own package format, but uses existing *.cabal files and complements projects with an additional stack.yaml file.

References

  1. ↑ "stack 0.1 released". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Release v1.1.2". GitHub repository commercialhaskell/stack. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Stackage Server". FP Complete. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Why is stack not cabal?". Retrieved 27 January 2016. This blog post is intended to answer two very frequest 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?
  5. ↑ "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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