cabal-upload

cabal-upload is a command-line tool for uploading Cabal packages to HackageDB.

Usage

cabal-upload <username> <password> <path to tarball>

Here <username> and <password> are your credentials for the  Hackage web interface.

Availability

cabal-upload is now available from  HackageDB, so you can install it using cabal-install:

$ sudo cabal-install install cabal-upload

The development version is available in the cabal-upload directory of the Cabal darcs repository:

•  http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal/

TODO

• Output error messages as plain text instead of HTML. If it would send Accept: text/plain, perhaps the web interface could use that to give a nice text response.
• Don't show request and response headers.
• Take password from terminal to avoid storing it in the shell history?
• Allow storing username and password in a file?
• Use digest authentication? Does the hackage web server support that?
• Run cabal-setup sdist and upload the resulting tarball.
• Add command line options:
  • -vN: at high verbosity, show request and response data
  • Support for stored passwords
  • --check: Send to check-pkg instead of upload-pkg.
• Improve HTTP package API to make programs like cabal-upload simpler.