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.

Starting points for new Cabal hackers

  • Easy Tickets - bugs or features that should not take too long or require much experience of the Cabal code.
  • Current tickets - all the issues we would like to fix in at the next release.

Other resources for developers