On 10/07/15 16:48, Imants Cekusins wrote:
Thank you very much Bjørn.
Are Stackage packages - a subset of Hackage packages? Do packages get uploaded to Hackage and then get transferred to Stackage?
It would be nice to agree to merge Hackage & Stackage, cabal-install & stack one day. Without this merge the "DLL-mess" might get worse.
My experience from playing around with stack the last couple of nights have been that Stackage is indeed a subset of Hackage packages, but that it is possible (and fairly easy - if not very documented) to use packages from Hackage with stack as well. One caveat - depending on how you look at it - is that you end up specifying these packages with specific versions in the stack.yaml file for your project. I personally believe that both a curated subset of "known good" packages like Stackage and the complete set of packages like Hackage can co-exist to their mutual benefit. I can certainly see the appeal of stack - I rather like it so far. Bjørn Øivind