The Stackage Repository: An Exploratory Study of its Evolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10887v2
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 01:03:20 GMT
• Title: The Stackage Repository: An Exploratory Study of its Evolution
• Authors: Paul Leger and Felipe Ruiz and Nicol\'as Sep\'ulveda and Ismael Figueroa and Nicol\'as Cardozo
• Abstract summary: This paper conducts empirical research about the evolution of Stackage considering monad packages. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first large-scale analysis of the evolution of the Stackage repository regarding packages used and monads.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Context. Package repositories for a programming language are increasingly common. A repository can keep a register of the evolution of its packages. In the programming language Haskell, with its defining characteristic monads, we can find the Stackage repository, which is a curated repository for stable Haskell packages in the Hackage repository. Despite the widespread use of Stackage in its industrial target, we are not aware of much empirical research about how this repository has evolved, including the use of monads. Objective. This paper conducts empirical research about the evolution of Stackage considering monad packages through 22 Long-Term Support releases during the period 2014-2023. Focusing on five research questions, this evolution is analyzed in terms of packages with their dependencies and imports; including the most used monad packages. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first large-scale analysis of the evolution of the Stackage repository regarding packages used and monads. Method. We define six research questions regarding the repository's evolution, and analyze them on 51,716 packages (17.05 GB) spread over 22 releases. For each package, we parse its cabal file and source code to extract the data, which is analyzed in terms of dependencies and imports using Pandas scripts. Results. From the methodology we get different findings. For example, there are packages that depend on other packages whose versions are not available in a particular release of Stackage; opening a potential stability issue. The mtl and transformers are on the top 10 packages most used/imported across releases of the Stackage evolution. We discussed these findings with Stackage maintainers, which allowed us to refine the research questions.

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