ghcup-hs/TODO.md

TODOs and Remarks

New

• download progress

• upgrade Upgrade this script in-place

• rm Remove an already installed GHC

• debug-info Print debug info (e.g. detected system/distro)

• changelog Show the changelog of a GHC release (online)

• print-system-reqs Print an approximation of system requirements

• install major ver

• testing (especially distro detection -> unit tests)

• TODO: cleanup temp files after use

Old

• handling of SIGTERM and SIGUSR

• add support for RC/alpha/HEAD versions

• redo/rethink how tool tags works

• mirror support

• checksums

• check for new version on start

• tarball tags as well as version tags?

• --copy-compiler-tools

• installing multiple versions in parallel?

• how to version and extend the format of the downloads file? Compatibility?

• how to propagate updates? Automatically? Might solve the versioning problem

• installing musl on demand?

• interactive handling when distro doesn't exist and we know the tarball is incompatible?

• ghcup-with wrapper to execute a command with a given ghc in PATH?

• maybe add deprecation notice into JSON