cabal2nix vs stack2cabal

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cabal2nix		stack2cabal
	Project
1	Mentions	2
350	Stars	22
0.9%	Growth	-
6.4	Activity	5.6
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

NixOS + Haskell best practices circa March 2023
6 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Mar 2023

cabal2nix

stack2cabal

Posts with mentions or reviews of stack2cabal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-15.

Generate Typescript from Servant API
5 projects | /r/haskell | 15 Mar 2022

run stack2cabal --no-pin-ghc (there are binaries here)
2021 Survey Results :: Haskell Weekly podcast
1 project | /r/haskell | 10 Dec 2021

An example Github workflow that does it (tbf it can be even more simplified, now that ghcup is pre-installed on the VMs) is: https://github.com/hasufell/stack2cabal/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yaml

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cabal2nix and stack2cabal you can also consider the following projects:

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

servant-ts - See the docs and live playground here

ekg-json - JSON encoding of ekg metrics

servant - Main repository for the servant libraries — DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documenting web applications and more!

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

stack-templatizer - Transform a Folder into a Stack Template

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

implicit-hie - Auto generate a stack or cabal multi component hie.yaml file

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

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

packunused - Tool for detecting redundant Cabal package dependencies

distribution-nixpkgs - Haskell types and functions to represent, query, and manipulate the Nixpkgs distribution. | Source has moved to https://github.com/nixos/cabal2nix