cabal2nix VS distribution-nixpkgs

Compare cabal2nix vs distribution-nixpkgs and see what are their differences.

cabal2nix

Generate Nix build instructions from a Cabal file (by NixOS)
DevOps Distribution Cabal Nix Hackage Haskell Cabal2nix Nixpkgs
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distribution-nixpkgs

Haskell types and functions to represent, query, and manipulate the Nixpkgs distribution. | Source has moved to https://github.com/nixos/cabal2nix (by NixOS)
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cabal2nix distribution-nixpkgs
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350 17
0.9% -
6.4 0.0
2 months ago over 1 year ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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cabal2nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of cabal2nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.

distribution-nixpkgs

Posts with mentions or reviews of distribution-nixpkgs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning distribution-nixpkgs yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cabal2nix and distribution-nixpkgs you can also consider the following projects:

cblrepo - Tool to simplify managing a consistent set of Haskell packages for distributions.

hackage-mirror

ekg-json - JSON encoding of ekg metrics

Cabal - Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install

jailbreak-cabal - Strip version restrictions from build dependencies in Cabal files.

cabal-helper - Give Haskell development tools access to Cabal project environment.

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

ghcup-hs - THIS REPO IS A MIRROR, BUG REPORTS GO HERE:

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

cabal-bounds - Set the version bounds of dependencies in a cabal file

cabal2nix vs cblrepo distribution-nixpkgs vs hackage-mirror cabal2nix vs ekg-json distribution-nixpkgs vs Cabal cabal2nix vs jailbreak-cabal distribution-nixpkgs vs cabal-helper cabal2nix vs Cabal distribution-nixpkgs vs hackage-repo-tool cabal2nix vs ghcup-hs distribution-nixpkgs vs stackage cabal2nix vs stackage distribution-nixpkgs vs cabal-bounds