As part of our announcement of open sourcing ide-backend, there was a video demonstrating a tool called “fpview” (that was our internal name for this tool). Like many of our tools, after some internal development, we’re now releasing it open source here at: stackage-view. It looks like this: The README documents the features, but here’s […]
I’ve released the first version of monad-unlift. From its README: Typeclasses for providing for unlifting of monad transformers and stacks, and concrete implementations of common transformers implementing this type classes. This package is a companion to monad-control, providing simplified functions to a common subset of transformers and functionality. I’ve copied in the content of the […]
The Stackage team is proud to announce the release of LTS Haskell 2. To quote the package page: LTS Haskell: Version your Ecosystem LTS (Long Term Support) Haskell is a curated set of packages which includes non-breaking point releases. It is a companion to Stackage Nightly: whereas Stackage Nightly releases include potentially breaking changes with […]
We’re happy to announce the availability of MinGHC for GHC 7.10. MinGHC is a minimal GHC installer for Windows, consisting of: GHC itself cabal-install MSYS, which is necessary for building some packages such as network MinGHC came out of some conversation Neil Mitchell and I had at ICFP last year about pain on the Windows […]
Our composable community infrastructure TL;DR: we propose to factor Hackage into a separate, very simple service serving a stash of Haskell packages, with the rest of Hackage built on top of that, in the name of availability, reliability and extensibility. One of the main strengths of Haskell is just how much it encourages composable code. […]
We have been running a mirror of Hackage package repository which we use internally for the FP Complete Haskell Centre’s IDE, building Stackage, and other purposes. This has been an open secret, but now we’re making it official. To use it, replace the remote-repo line in your ~/.cabal/config with the following: remote-repo: hackage.fpcomplete.com:https://hackage.fpcomplete.com/ Then run […]
As many of you saw, GHC 7.10 RC3 is now available. As has become a pretty long-standing tradition, the Stackage project has been tracking GHC 7.10 library support for a few months now. Given how close we are to a release, now seems like a good time to make a more public status report. Firstly: […]
We’re releasing a simple package called executable-hash, which provides the SHA1 hash of the program’s executable. In order to avoid computing this hash at runtime, it may be inserted into the binary as a step after compilation. Use Cases Why might you want this? There are a couple clear usecases, and likely others exist: Enabling […]
As I’m sure many people remember, we released LTS Haskell 1.0 at the beginning of January, and announced that the next major release would be just three months away, placing it at April 1 (no, that’s not a joke). Now’s a good time for a little status update, and an opportunity to discuss plans for […]
I originally wrote this content as a chapter of Mezzo Haskell. I’m going to be starting up a similar effort to Mezzo Haskell in the next few days, and I wanted to get a little more attention on this content to get feedback on style and teaching approach. I’ll be discussing that new initiative on […]