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Why does the "complete list of packages" link to here (https://www.stackage.org/lts https://www.stackage.org/lts) instead of hackage? Is there a general consen
by ch 10y ago
Why does the "complete list of packages" link to here (https://www.stackage.org/lts https://www.stackage.org/lts) instead of hackage?
Is there a general consensus to move beyond hackage? I thought your work on backpack was still ongoing and bridging the usability gap between cabal and stack, no?
- ezyang 10y agoWell, if you are a user using Stack, packages which are not in the LTS have to be added manually. So in a Stack universe, treating LTS as the universe of packages is not unreasonable. I don't think either Stack users or Cabal users think Hackage should go away; in particular if you're a library author, the way into the LTS is to publish something to Hackage and then ask Stackage to take it. As for Backpack, it doesn't really have much to do with the philosophy difference between Cabal and Stack. But I have, as necessary refactoring for implementing Backpack, been working on improving cabal-install, including the Nix-local builds feature which is supposed to make Cabal's usability story much better.