Stack is a tool to build

Haskell Haskell () is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Designed for teaching, research and industrial applications, Haskell has pioneered a number of programming lang ...

projects and manage their dependencies. It uses the

Cabal A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually unbeknownst to those who are outside their group. T ...

library but with a curated version of the Hackage repository called ''Stackage''. Stack competes against Cabal's binary cabal-install and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems. It does not, however, provide its own

package format A package format is a type of archive containing computer programs and additional metadata needed by package managers. While the archive file format itself may be unchanged, package formats bear additional metadata, such as a manifest file or cert ...

, but uses existing *.cabal files and complements projects with an additional stack.yaml file.

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Free software programmed in Haskell Free package management systems Software using the BSD license {{Install-software-stub