The Hackage Wiki and Bug Tracker
This wiki and bug tracker are for the Hackage and Cabal projects.
What is Hackage?
Hackage is a community development project consisting of a number of components related to packaging Haskell software:
- Cabal
- The library, and package description format for a single package. Cabal is the lowest-level tool for Haskell package management. It is included with most Haskell implementations, but is also released separately.
- HackageDB
- The database of Cabal packages (like CPAN for Haskell), with a web interface for browsing, checking and uploading packages.
- cabal-install
- The command-line interface for Cabal. It provides commands for installing cabal packages, including downloading packages from HackageDB and determining the dependencies among packages. It also provides commands for developers to configure, build, test and upload packages to HackageDB.
The bug tracker
Login first. If you do not have an account you can register an account. Alternatively you can login with username "guest" and password "haskell'" (note the apostrophe at the end).
Once you are logged in then you can report bugs, make feature requests or edit Wiki pages.
- Report a bug or make a feature request
- Search existing bugs and requests
- Easy Tickets - start here if you want to hack on Cabal. See TicketDifficulties for what easy means.
- Next release - all tickets targeted at the next major release.
Other starting points
- SourceGuide - a quick guide to the Cabal source code
- CabalConfigurations - info on the configurations feature
- Development discussion:
- StableInterfaces - what level of stability you can expect of various Cabal interfaces
- HackageTools - links to some other tools that use the Cabal/Hackage infrastructure
- CabalPackages - a short list of old packages that still need to be uploaded to hackage
- RubyGems - comparison to Ruby's standard packaging system
- Help on using this wiki.
