Hackage

Hackage is the Haskell community's central package archive. Package authors use it to publish their libraries and programs while other Haskell programmers use tools like cabal-install to download and install packages (or people get the packages via their distro).

Links

• The main web interface. It also has interfaces used by tools like cabal-install.
• Hackage works with Haskell packages in the Cabal format.
• Server status
• Hackage server wiki, about the code that runs the server.

Getting help

• For issues with accounts or permissions please contact the administrators by email admin@hackage.haskell.org
• Submit bug reports in the github issue tracker.
• New ideas are best submitted at the project page.
• There is a #hackage IRC channel on freenode for the discussion of the development of the hackage server and related tools such as Cabal/cabal-install.

Administration and policies

• Taking over a package on Hackage, with the assistance of the existing maintainer or otherwise
• Hackage trustees: what they do, who they are, what guidelines they follow.

Hackage mirrors

• Hackage mirror
• hdiff, Hackage diff tool and Hackage mirror
• Reesd Hackage Mirror
• Source to create a Hackage mirror
• Source to create a Hackage mirror, a fork of the previously mentioned source code
• Hackage mirror as static files (a script to download Hackage)

Related resources

• There is a daily updated BibTeX database for citing packages.

Blog posts

• Fix your Hackage documentation
• Hackage documentation v2