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.