hsinstall: Install Haskell software
This is a tool for deploying software projects into directory structures suitable for installation on a system. It builds upon the `stack install` and `cabal install` commands and adds more features. It's also a tool for easier AppImage creation.
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| Versions [RSS] | 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 |
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| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=3 && <5), Cabal (>=3.14.0.0 && <4), directory (>=1.3.8.1 && <1.4), exceptions (>=0.10.7 && <1), filepath (>=1.4.100.4 && <1.6), formatting (>=7.2.0 && <8), heredoc (>=0.2.0.0 && <0.3), hsinstall, hslogger (>=1.3.1.2 && <2), hslogger-colorfmt (>=1.0.0 && <2), optparse-applicative-dex (>=1.0.1 && <1.2), process (>=1.6.17.0 && <2), safe-exceptions (>=0.1.7.4 && <0.2), text (>=2.0.2 && <2.3), transformers (>=0.6.1.0 && <0.7) [details] |
| License | ISC |
| Copyright | 2016 Dino Morelli |
| Author | Dino Morelli |
| Maintainer | Dino Morelli <dino@ui3.info> |
| Uploaded | by DinoMorelli at 2026-09-06T20:04:48Z |
| Category | Utility |
| Home page | https://codeberg.org/dinofp/hsinstall |
| Bug tracker | https://codeberg.org/dinofp/hsinstall/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://codeberg.org/dinofp/hsinstall |
| Distributions | LTSHaskell:2.8, Stackage:3.2 |
| Executables | hsinstall |
| Downloads | 8012 total (29 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2026-09-06 [all 1 reports] |
Readme for hsinstall-3.2
[back to package description]hsinstall
Synopsis
Pack a haskell project into a deployable directory structure
Description
hsinstall is a tool for deploying software projects into directory structures
suitable for installation on a system. It builds upon the stack install and
cabal install commands and adds more features. It's also a tool for easier
AppImage creation.
- Copies the
LICENSEfile into<PREFIX>/share/<PROJECT-NAME>/doc - Copies the contents of a template directory stucture in your project (named
hsi-tmplorhsi-tmpl.EXE) into the destination prefix directory. This can contain additional binaries or scripts, resources, documentation, etc. - Optionally builds an AppDir-shaped directory structure for the project and produces an an AppImage binary
If the AppImage features are desired, you must have these tools on your PATH:
linuxdeploy: https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy/releases
linuxdeploy-plugin-appimage: https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy-plugin-appimage/releases
Development
Browse the source
Get source with git and build
$ git clone https://codeberg.org/dinofp/hsinstall.git
$ cd hsinstall
$ stack build
If you have the abovementioned linuxdeploy-* programs on your path, we can do
something really cool. Use this freshly-built hsinstall to package itself
into an AppImage:
$ stack run hsinstall -- --appimage hsinstall
And you should see an hsinstall-y.z-x86_64.AppImage binary in .
Tip: Use git clean -df to blow away untracked things like the hsi-* and
AppImage artifacts.
Handy command to generate Haddock docs during development if using stack. This constrains doc generation to modules in the library:
$ stack haddock --no-haddock-deps
Contact
Authors
Dino Morelli dino@ui3.info
This work is hand-crafted with no LLM/AI involved