Cabal VS cabal-userguide

Compare Cabal vs cabal-userguide and see what are their differences.

Cabal

Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install (by haskell)

cabal-userguide

A handy user guide for the Cabal build tool (by haskell)
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Cabal cabal-userguide
84 2
1,559 29
1.0% -
9.8 0.0
6 days ago over 2 years ago
Haskell Nix
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License -
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Cabal

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cabal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.

cabal-userguide

Posts with mentions or reviews of cabal-userguide. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-30.
  • [Call for Contributors] *New* Cabal User Guide
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 30 Jun 2021
    I am trying to keep on top of the issue tracker and provide plenty of context. The first three sections have all their required chapters recorded in the issue tracker https://github.com/haskell/cabal-userguide/issues
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 30 Jun 2021
    Yeah, that's fair. If you look at the content outline for the new user guide nix is only mentioned in the nix interoperability section so I think your wish has already been granted? https://github.com/haskell/cabal-userguide/blob/main/src/SUMMARY.md

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cabal and cabal-userguide you can also consider the following projects:

stack - The Haskell Tool Stack

haskell.nix - Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs

static-haskell-nix - easily build most Haskell programs into fully static Linux executables

cartel

hackage-repo-tool - Hackage security framework based on TUF (The Update Framework)

codeworld - Educational computer programming environment using Haskell

stackage - Stable Haskell package sets: vetted consistent packages from Hackage

cab - A maintenance command of Haskell cabal packages

wasp - The fastest way to develop full-stack web apps with React & Node.js.

cabal2nix - Generate Nix build instructions from a Cabal file

hackage-server - Hackage-Server: A Haskell Package Repository

cabal-dev - A wrapper program around cabal and cabal-install that maintains sandboxed build environments.