What tools do you all use for automating release of Haskell libraries to Hackage? Automating the following would be of relevance in this workflow: Tag a release on GitHub Create sdist cabal sdist and docs cabal haddock --haddock-for-hackage cabal upload --publish both the sdist and haddock (My p…

[image] srid: and docs cabal haddock --haddock-for-hackage Do you have a specific need with regards to docs? Lately I have not witness Hackage failing docs builds. Personally I cannot be of much help, I do it manually, because I want to check candidates before publishing the real package.

[image] f-a: Do you have a specific need with regards to docs? Lately I have not witness Hackage failing docs builds. I manually upload haddock only because it gives me an instant preview on hackage. I don’t know how long it takes for Hackage to automatically generate docs, but it doesn’t see…

[image] GitHub - haskell-actions/hackage-publish: A GitHub action for publishing packages on Hackage A GitHub action for publishing packages on Hackage

I decided to write my own script. What I wanted was an “one click” workflow—basically I just run nix run github:srid/hackage-publish on the package source … and it publishes without any manual intervention (except for using my fingerprint to approve password request). It is hardcoded to 1Password, …

I’m using a simple nix wrapper on top of a Haskell package built with Nix (haskell-flake). ... packages = { “ClickHaskell-dist” = import ./contribution/hackage.nix { inherit pkgs; distPackage = self’.packages.ghc984-ClickHaskell; }; }; ... {pkgs, distPackage}: with pkgs.has…

I recently dubbled with hkgr: Simple Hackage release workflow for package maintainers which I really liked. @f-a I do it manually, because I want to check candidates before publishing the real package. hkgr, for one, publishes a candidate by default, so there’s a room for manual double-checking…

Simon Hengel automates releases of Hpack at hpack/.github/workflows/publish.yml at main · sol/hpack · GitHub . He makes use of an action that creates Git tags on Cabal file version bumps: GitHub - sol/haskell-autotag: A GitHub action that creates git tags on .cabal version bumps .

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