Revision history for ghcup

0.1.13 -- ????-??-??

Fix item selection with unavailable versions wrt #107
Allow for dynamic post-install, post-remove and pre-compile msgs wrt MR #68
Alert user if upgraded ghcup is shadowed by old ghcup wrt #111
Fix to ghcup directory creation and placement for the XDG install mode (MR #49)
Do 755 permissions on executables, wrt #97
Add NO_COLOR support wrt MR #47

Fix disappearing HLS symlinks wrt #91
improve TUI:
- separators between tools sections
- reverse list order so latest is on top
- expand the blues selected bar
- show new latest versions in bright white
allow configuration file and setting TUI hotkeys wrt #41
- see https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs#configuration for a more in-depth explanation
add a --set switch to ghcup install ghc to automatically set as default after install
emit warnings when CC/LD is set wrt #82
add support for version ranges in distro specifiers wrt #84
- e.g. "(>= 19 && <= 20) || ==0.2.2" is a valid version key for distro

Add support for installing haskell-language-server, wrt #65
When compiling GHC from source create a bindist first, store that bindist in ~/.ghcup/cache and install it, wrt #51
Allow to compile over existing version (ghcup compile ghc -v 8.6.5 -b 8.6.5) and replace it wrt #59
simplify installing from custom bindist wrt #60
- ghcup install ghc -u <url> <version>
fix bug when cabal isn't marked executable in bindist
fix bug when ~/.ghcup is a valid symlink wrt #49
Drop support for compiling cabal from source (the old bootstrap script is discontinued)

Fix bug when uninstalling all cabal versions
Fix bug when setting a non-installed ghc version as current default
Use yaml instead of generated json for download info for ease of adding new GHC versions #44
Allow pre-release versions of GHC/cabal
Add XDG dirs support (set GHCUP_USE_XDG_DIRS) wrt #39
Allow to specify regex for tarball subdir (e.g. ghc-.*)
Allow installing arbitrary bindists more seamlessly:
- e.g. installing GHC HEAD: ghcup -n install ghc -u '{"dlHash": "", "dlSubdir": { "RegexDir": "ghc-.*"}, "dlUri": "https://gitlab.haskell.org/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/ghc-x86_64-fedora27-linux.tar.xz?job=validate-x86_64-linux-fedora27" }' head
Avoid duplicate edits to .bashrc/.zshrc wrt #43

Fix bug in logging thread dying on newlines
Allow to install from arbitrary bindists: ghcup -n install ghc -u '{"dlHash": "", "dlSubdir": "ghc-8.10.1", "dlUri": "https://github.com/commercialhaskell/ghc/releases/download/ghc-8.10.1-release/ghc-8.10.1-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz"}' 8.10.1

Fix a bug in libarchive not unpacking some uncleanly packed bindists
Improved fish support in bootstrap-haskell
Only check for upgrades when not upgrading
Fix platform detection for i386 docker images
Improve alpine support
- more/proper bindists
- don't fall back to glibc based bindists
- install bindists with --disable-ld-override to avoid ld.gold bugs

Fix errors when PATH variable contains path components that are actually files
Add --version and --numeric-version options
Add changelog command
Also check for available GHC and Cabal updates on start
Add base versions as tags for every GHC version (these are "installable" tags and the latest GHC version matching the tag will be picked)
Added --format-raw to list subcommand
Allow to install X.Y versions (e.g.: ghcup install 8.8)
Implement --keep=<always|errors|never> to control temporary build directories cleanup
Add proper shell completions to the repo
Fix building of documentation
Allow to work in offline mode and use cached files if possible
Allow to set the downloader via --downloader=<curl|wget>
Support for compiling and installing a cross GHC (see README). This is experimental.

build on all platforms with curl (as a binary), wrt https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/issues/6
Fix unlinking of ghc symlinks after new installation, wrt https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/issues/7