Editing Stack (Haskell) (section)

{{Short description|Haskell development tool}}
{{About|the Haskell tool Stack|the data type and concept|Stack (abstract data type)|and|Stack (disambiguation){{!}}Stack}} 
{{Infobox software
| name = stack
| logo =
| screenshot =
| caption =
| released = {{Start date and age|2015|06|23}}<ref>{{cite web|title=stack 0.1 released|url=https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/06/stack-0-1-release|website=FP Complete|access-date=13 January 2016}}</ref>
| latest release version = 2.7.1<ref>{{cite web|title=Release v2.7.1|url=https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/releases/tag/v2.7.1|access-date=11 Jun 2021|website=GitHub repository commercialhaskell/stack}}</ref>
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2021|05|08}}
| programming language = [[Haskell]]
| operating system = [[Unix]], [[Unix-like]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| platform =
| size = 60 [[megabyte]]s
| language = [[English language|English]]
| license = [[BSD licenses|BSD]]
| website = {{URL|www.haskellstack.org}}
}}

'''Stack''' is a tool to build projects and manage their [[Coupling (computer programming)|dependencies]] for the [[programming language]] [[Haskell]]. It uses the [[Cabal (software)|Cabal]] [[Library (computing)|library]] but with a curated version of the Hackage [[software repository]] named ''Stackage''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stackage Server|url=https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2014/05/stackage-server|website=FP Complete|access-date=13 January 2016}}</ref><ref name=Report32ED>{{cite web|url=https://www.haskell.org/communities/05-2017/report.pdf|title=Haskell Communities and Activities Report Thirty Second Edition|date=May 2017|publisher=Mihai Maruseac|access-date=2017-08-10}}</ref> 

Stack competes against Cabal's [[binary file]] cabal-install<ref>{{cite web|title=Why is stack not cabal?|url=https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/06/why-is-stack-not-cabal|quote=This blog post is intended to answer two very {{sic|frequest}} questions about stack: how is it different from Cabal? And: Why was it developed as a separate project instead of being worked on with Cabal?|access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref> and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems.<ref>{{cite web|title=What do Haskellers want? Over a thousand tell us|url=https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/05/thousand-user-haskell-survey|quote=Package management with cabal is the single worst aspect of using Haskell. Asked if improvements to package management would make a difference to their future choice of Haskell for a project, 38% said it would be "crucial" and a further 29% said it would be "important". Comments connected cabal with words like hell, pain, awful, sucks, frustrating, and hideous. Only this topic showed such grave dissatisfaction.|access-date=13 January 2016}}</ref> However, it does not provide its own [[package format]], but uses extant <code>*.cabal</code> files and complements projects with an added <code>stack.yaml</code> file.