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| Release | June 23, 2015 |
| Stable release | 2.7.1
/ May 8, 2021 |
| Written in | Haskell |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Windows |
| Size | 60 megabytes |
| Available in | English |
| License | BSD |
| Website | www |
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.
Stack competes against Cabal's binary file cabal-install and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems. However, it does not provide its own package format, but uses extant *.cabal files and complements projects with an added stack.yaml file.
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?
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.
Official website stack on GitHub
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