stackage
========

"Stable Hackage," tools for creating a vetted set of packages from Hackage.

A note about the codebase: the goal is to minimize dependencies and have
the maximum range of supported compiler versions. Therefore, we avoid
anything "complicated." For example, instead of using the text package,
we use Strings everywhere.

Getting Started
---------------

As this project is just starting, we don't really have a solid set of steps. In
general, the following set of commands should be good for getting started:

    cabal update
    cabal install cabal-dev
    git clone https://github.com/fpco/stackage
    cd stackage
    git submodule update --init # get the Haskell Platform files
    runghc app/stackage.hs build # takes a *long* time
    runghc app/stackage.hs init # modifies your ~/.cabal/config file

Notes
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Make sure to have Cabal-1.16 installed in either your global or user database,
regardless of any sandboxing, as custom build types require it to be present.
You must build with cabal-install 1.16, due to several important bug fixes.