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Haskell Platform

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Operating system
  
portable

Website
  
The Haskell Platform

License
  
BSD

Developer(s)
  
Haskell Platform Infrastructure Team

Stable release
  
8.0.1 / May 27, 2016 (2016-05-27)

The Haskell Platform is a collection of software packages, tools and libraries that create a common platform for using and developing applications in Haskell. With the Haskell Platform, Haskell follows the same principle as Python: "Batteries included".

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Motivation

The Haskell Platform aims to unify Haskell development tools into a single package, consisting of a compiler, compiling tools and many standard libraries, therefore making it easier to develop and deploy full-featured Haskell-driven applications.

Packages included

Currently it consists of:

  • GHC, Haskell's flagship compiler
  • The GHC-Profiler
  • GHCi, GHCs bytecode-interpreter
  • The GHCi-Debugger
  • Alex, a lexer generator, similar to Lex
  • Happy, a parser generator, similar to Yacc
  • Cabal, a package manager
  • Haddock, a documentation tool
  • hsc2hs, a preprocessor for binding Haskell to C code, allowing C libraries to be used from Haskell
  • various libraries, such as zlib, cgi and OpenGL

    • Deployment

    It is available for Ubuntu, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux (x86-64 and x86), Fedora, Debian (stable) and NixOS. One-click installers exist for OS X (only Intel) and Microsoft Windows.

    Versions

    Originally, the Haskell Platform aimed at a 6-months release cycle. Starting with 7.10.2, it will follow the release cycle of GHC and use the same version numbering scheme.

    References

    Haskell Platform Wikipedia
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