Does Stackage provide API for getting a list of all packages in a snapshot?

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Does Stackage provide API for getting a list of all packages in a snapshot?

neongreen opened this issue 8 years ago · 3 comments

The closest I found was lts-.../buildplan (which returns cabal.config) but it doesn't quite work for me because it doesn't list versions of e.g. array and other GHC-installed packages.

If there isn't an API for that, I'm willing to implement it :)

Answer 1 · 2017-06-11T12:07:08.000Z

I don't believe we currently provide any JSON APIs. I'm not opposed to providing them, but using the YAML files directly may be a better option.

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Answer 2 · 2017-06-11T20:10:29.000Z

Huh. Where can I find those YAML files?

Answer 3 · 2017-06-12T03:11:23.000Z

In the fpco/lts-haskell and stackage-nightly repos. The stackage-curator package contains types that can deserialize those files.

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