Stack is a tool to build projects and manage their dependencies for the

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Haskell Haskell () is a general-purpose, statically typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Designed for teaching, research, and industrial applications, Haskell pioneered several programming language ...

. It uses the

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library A library is a collection of Book, books, and possibly other Document, materials and Media (communication), media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions. Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or electron ...

but with a curated version of the Hackage

software repository A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for Package format, software packages. Often a table of contents is also stored, along with metadata. A software repository is typically managed by source or version control, or rep ...

named ''Stackage''. Stack competes against Cabal's

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cabal-install and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems. However, it does not provide its own

package format Package format is a type of archive containing computer programs and additional metadata needed by package managers; an instance of this type of archive is called a package. While the archive file format itself may be unchanged, package formats c ...

, but uses extant *.cabal files and complements projects with an added stack.yaml file.

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