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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, command-line interface, 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.
cabal-setup
A convenience tool for installing a single cabal package. This tool compiles the Setup.lhs script, if necessary, or if there is no Setup.lhs script, acts like one. It is part of the cabal source.
 HackageDB
The database of Cabal packages, like  CPAN for Haskell. A  web interface is currently in beta.
cabal-put
A tool that can be run on hackage.haskell.org to add a Cabal package to HackageDB. Obviously this is only available to those with a login on that machine; anyone else should ask on the libraries mailing list. (The older client-side cabal-put? is currently defunct, but some means for uploading packages may reappear.)
cabal-install
A tool for installing multiple cabal packages, including downloading packages from HackageDB and determining the dependencies among packages. This tool is in development and not yet available except in the darcs distribution of cabal. (Its predecessor, cabal-get?, is now defunct.)

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