Revision history for ghcup

0.1.7 -- 2020-07-20

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