Hackage, Cabal and the Haskell Platform: The Second Year

The Haskell Implementors Workshop was held in Baltimore, Oct 1, 2010. Duncan Coutts from Well-Typed and I presented a status report on the Haskell distribution infrastructure:

• The Haskell Platform
• Hackage
• Cabal

You can read the slides as PDF here, or online:

The amount of freely available Haskell code has grown exponentially in the past
two years as Hackage and Cabal have come online. Managing millions of Haskell
code, partitioned thousands of interdependent packages is a serious engineering
challenge that has received little attention from the language research community.
Meanwhile, new adopters of Haskell struggle to deal with the sheer number of
libraries and tools now available.

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