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.

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.

HackageDB

The database of Cabal packages (like  CPAN for Haskell), with a  web interface for browsing, checking and uploading packages.

The bug tracker

Login first 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

Other starting points

• Development discussion:
  • DependencyAnalysis
• CabalPackages?
• StableInterfaces
• HackageTools?
• News?
• Tickets
  • critical for next release
  • Tickets by milestone
  • Easy Tickets - start here if you want to hack on Cabal. See TicketDifficulties for what easy means.
•  Debian-related bugs
• Help on using this wiki.
• Track the progress of the Summer of Code project to implement CabalConfigurations
• Cabal and Hackage have some wiki pages over at the  Haskell Wiki. Feel free to move them here!