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How to do package management? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/haskell@programming.dev
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Hi, I'm a beginner when it comes to Haskell, but I guess I'm somewhat comfortable with the language itself. I'd love to try building some stuff using it. However, I'm finding it very hard to properly use external libraries/packages.

I'm familiar with Rust's cargo, and go's package management system, and feel very comfortable using them. Are there similar ones for Haskell? Basically, I want them defined per project, and not have to install everything system-wide. I'd like to be able to provide users with simple instructions for replicating the whole build setup.

What's the idiomatic way? Are there any example packages that I can look at that are not too complicated?

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago

The ones I have seen that are per-project are stack and nix, and cabal is used for system-wide

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Cabal is more than sufficient for my purposes nowadays. I'd recommend reading their Getting Started page:

    https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.10/getting-started.html

    That gives an overview of the basic functions and for example how to add new dependencies.

    For setting up the entire toolchain, I'd also recommend GHCUp's first steps guide:

    https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/steps/

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    [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    mamba/miniforge? It's been much faster than conda

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