Changelog for cabal-install-1.22.4.0
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1.22.4.0 Ryan Thomas <ryan@ryant.org> May 2015
* Force cabal upload to always use digest auth and never basic auth.
* Add dependency-graph information to `printPlan` output
* bootstrap.sh: fixes linker matching to avoid cases where tested linker names appear unexpectedly in compiler output (fixes #2542)
1.22.3.0 Ryan Thomas <ryan@ryant.org> April 2015
* Fix bash completion for sandbox subcommands - Fixes #2513 (Mikhail Glushenkov)
* filterConfigureFlags: filter more flags (Mikhail Glushenkov)
1.22.2.0 Ryan Thomas <ryan@ryant.org> March 2015
* Don't pass '--{en,dis}able-profiling' to old setup exes.
* -Wall police
* Allow filepath 1.4
1.21.x (current development version)
* New command: user-config (#2159).
* Implement 'cabal repl --only' (#2016).
* Fix an issue when 'cabal repl' was doing unnecessary compilation
(#1715).
* Prompt the user to specify source directory in 'cabal init'
(#1989).
* Remove the self-upgrade check (#2090).
* Don't redownload already downloaded packages when bootstrapping
(#2133).
* Support sandboxes in 'bootstrap.sh' (#2137).
* Install profiling and shared libs by default in 'bootstrap.sh'
(#2009).
1.20.0.3 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> June 2014
* Don't attempt to rename dist if it is already named correctly
* Treat all flags of a package as interdependent.
* Allow template-haskell to be upgradable again
1.20.0.2 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> May 2014
* Increase max-backjumps to 2000.
* Fix solver bug which led to missed install plans.
* Fix streaming test output.
* Tweak solver heuristics to avoid reinstalls.
1.20.0.1 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> May 2014
* Fix cabal repl search path bug on Windows
* Include OS and arch in cabal-install user agent
* Revert --constraint flag behavior in configure to 1.18 behavior
1.20.0.0 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> April 2014
* Build only selected executables
* Add -j flag to build/test/bench/run
* Improve install log file
* Don't symlink executables when in a sandbox
* Add --package-db flag to 'list' and 'info'
* Make upload more efficient
* Add --require-sandbox option
* Add experimental Cabal file format command
* Add haddock section to config file
* Add --main-is flag to init
0.14.0 Andres Loeh <andres@well-typed.com> April 2012
* Works with ghc-7.4
* Completely new modular dependency solver (default in most cases)
* Some tweaks to old topdown dependency solver
* Install plans are now checked for reinstalls that break packages
* Flags --constraint and --preference work for nonexisting packages
* New constraint forms for source and installed packages
* New constraint form for package-specific use flags
* New constraint form for package-specific stanza flags
* Test suite dependencies are pulled in on demand
* No longer install packages on --enable-tests when tests fail
* New "cabal bench" command
* Various "cabal init" tweaks
0.10.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@community.haskell.org> February 2011
* New package targets: local dirs, local and remote tarballs
* Initial support for a "world" package target
* Partial fix for situation where user packages mask global ones
* Removed cabal upgrade, new --upgrade-dependencies flag
* New cabal install --only-dependencies flag
* New cabal fetch --no-dependencies and --dry-run flags
* Improved output for cabal info
* Simpler and faster bash command line completion
* Fix for broken proxies that decompress wrongly
* Fix for cabal unpack to preserve executable permissions
* Adjusted the output for the -v verbosity level in a few places
0.8.2 Duncan Coutts <duncan@community.haskell.org> March 2010
* Fix for cabal update on Windows
* On windows switch to per-user installs (rather than global)
* Handle intra-package dependencies in dependency planning
* Minor tweaks to cabal init feature
* Fix various -Wall warnings
* Fix for cabal sdist --snapshot
0.8.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Dec 2009
* Works with ghc-6.12
* New "cabal init" command for making initial project .cabal file
* New feature to maintain an index of haddock documentation
0.6.4 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Nov 2009
* Improve the algorithm for selecting the base package version
* Hackage errors now reported by "cabal upload [--check]"
* Improved format of messages from "cabal check"
* Config file can now be selected by an env var
* Updated tar reading/writing code
* Improve instructions in the README and bootstrap output
* Fix bootstrap.sh on Solaris 9
* Fix bootstrap for systems where network uses parsec 3
* Fix building with ghc-6.6
0.6.2 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Feb 2009
* The upgrade command has been disabled in this release
* The configure and install commands now have consistent behaviour
* Reduce the tendancy to re-install already existing packages
* The --constraint= flag now works for the install command
* New --preference= flag for soft constraints / version preferences
* Improved bootstrap.sh script, smarter and better error checking
* New cabal info command to display detailed info on packages
* New cabal unpack command to download and untar a package
* HTTP-4000 package required, should fix bugs with http proxies
* Now works with authenticated proxies.
* On Windows can now override the proxy setting using an env var
* Fix compatability with config files generated by older versions
* Warn if the hackage package list is very old
* More helpful --help output, mention config file and examples
* Better documentation in ~/.cabal/config file
* Improved command line interface for logging and build reporting
* Minor improvements to some messages
0.6.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Oct 2008
* Constraint solver can now cope with base 3 and base 4
* Allow use of package version preferences from hackage index
* More detailed output from cabal install --dry-run -v
* Improved bootstrap.sh
0.5.2 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Aug 2008
* Suport building haddock documentaion
* Self-reinstall now works on Windows
* Allow adding symlinks to excutables into a separate bindir
* New self-documenting config file
* New install --reinstall flag
* More helpful status messages in a couple places
* Upload failures now report full text error message from the server
* Support for local package repositories
* New build logging and reporting
* New command to upload build reports to (a compatible) server
* Allow tilde in hackage server URIs
* Internal code improvements
* Many other minor improvements and bug fixes
0.5.1 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> June 2008
* Restore minimal hugs support in dependency resolver
* Fix for disabled http proxies on Windows
* Revert to global installs on Windows by default
0.5.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> June 2008
* New package dependency resolver, solving diamond dep problem
* Integrate cabal-setup functionality
* Integrate cabal-upload functionality
* New cabal update and check commands
* Improved behavior for install and upgrade commands
* Full Windows support
* New command line handling
* Bash command line completion
* Allow case insensitive package names on command line
* New --dry-run flag for install, upgrade and fetch commands
* New --root-cmd flag to allow installing as root
* New --cabal-lib-version flag to select different Cabal lib versions
* Support for HTTP proxies
* Improved cabal list output
* Build other non-dependent packages even when some fail
* Report a summary of all build failures at the end
* Partial support for hugs
* Partial implementation of build reporting and logging
* More consistent logging and verbosity
* Significant internal code restructuring
0.4 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Oct 2007
* Renamed executable from 'cabal-install' to 'cabal'
* Partial Windows compatability
* Do per-user installs by default
* cabal install now installs the package in the current directory
* Allow multiple remote servers
* Use zlib lib and internal tar code and rather than external tar
* Reorganised configuration files
* Significant code restructuring
* Cope with packages with conditional dependencies
0.3 and older versions by Lemmih, Paolo Martini and others 2006-2007
* Switch from smart-server, dumb-client model to the reverse
* New .tar.gz based index format
* New remote and local package archive format