stack2cabal vs cabal2nix

stack2cabal

Convert stack projects to cabal.project + cabal.project.freeze (by hasufell)

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cabal2nix

Generate Nix build instructions from a Cabal file (by NixOS)

DevOps Distribution Cabal Nix Hackage Haskell Cabal2nix Nixpkgs

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

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

servant-ts - See the docs and live playground here

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

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

ekg-json - JSON encoding of ekg metrics

stack-templatizer - Transform a Folder into a Stack Template

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

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

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

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