stackage

"Stable Hackage," tools for creating a vetted set of packages from Hackage.

A note about the codebase: the goal is to minimize dependencies and have the maximum range of supported compiler versions. Therefore, we avoid anything "complicated." For example, instead of using the text package, we use Strings everywhere.

Getting Started

As this project is just starting, we don't really have a solid set of steps. In general, the following set of commands should be good for getting started:

cabal update
cabal install cabal-dev
git clone https://github.com/fpco/stackage
cd stackage
git submodule update --init # get the Haskell Platform files
runghc app/stackage.hs build # takes a *long* time
runghc app/stackage.hs init # modifies your ~/.cabal/config file

Notes

Make sure to have Cabal-1.16 installed in either your global or user database, regardless of any sandboxing, as custom build types require it to be present. You must build with cabal-install 1.16, due to several important bug fixes.