Stack (Haskell)

This article is about the Haskell tool Stack. For the data type and concept, see Stack (abstract data type) and Stack.

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

Initial release	June 23, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06-23)[1]
Stable release	2.7.1[2] / May 8, 2021; 4 years ago (2021-05-08)
Written in	Haskell
Operating system	Unix, Unix-like, Windows
Size	60 megabytes
Available in	English
License	BSD
Website	www.haskellstack.org

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.