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The Hackage Wiki and Bug Tracker

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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, with the same command-line interface as a Cabal setup script. This tool compiles the Setup.lhs script, if necessary, using the right version of Cabal (based on the .cabal file) or if there is no Setup.lhs script, acts like one. The development version is available in a darcs repository at  http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/cabal-setup/.
HackageDB
The database of Cabal packages (like  CPAN for Haskell), with a  web interface for browsing, checking and uploading packages.
cabal-upload
A command-line tool for uploading packages to HackageDB, as an alternative to the web form.
cabal-install
A command-line tool for installing multiple cabal packages, including downloading packages from HackageDB and determining the dependencies among packages.

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