ghcup: ghc toolchain installer

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A rewrite of the shell script ghcup, for providing a more stable user experience and exposing an API.

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Name	Description	Default
tui	Build the brick powered tui (ghcup tui).	Enabled
internal-downloader	Compile the internal downloader, which links against OpenSSL. This is disabled on windows.	Disabled
strict-metadata-parsing	Don't ignore unknown keys in metadata. Useful for metadata testing.	Disabled
no-exe	Don't build any executables	Disabled
tar	Use haskell tar instead of libarchive.	Disabled
yaml-streamly	Use yaml-streamly instead of yaml (based on conduit)	Disabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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ghcup-0.1.50.2.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
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angerman, Bodigrim, maerwald

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Versions [RSS]	0.1.14.1, 0.1.14.2, 0.1.17.2, 0.1.17.3, 0.1.17.4, 0.1.17.5, 0.1.17.6, 0.1.17.8, 0.1.17.9, 0.1.17.10, 0.1.18.0, 0.1.19.0, 0.1.19.1, 0.1.19.2, 0.1.19.5, 0.1.20.0, 0.1.22.0, 0.1.30.0, 0.1.40.0, 0.1.50.0, 0.1.50.1, 0.1.50.2 (info)
Change log	CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies	aeson (>=1.4), aeson-pretty (>=0.8.8 && <0.9), async (>=2.2.3 && <2.3), attoparsec (>=0.14 && <0.15), base (>=4.12 && <5), base16-bytestring (>=0.1.1.6 && <1.1), binary (>=0.8.6.0 && <0.11), brick (>=2.1 && <2.8), bytestring (>=0.10 && <0.13), bz2 (>=1.0.1.1 && <1.1), Cabal (>=3.0.0.0 && <3.1 \|\| >=3.2.0.0 && <3.3 \|\| >=3.4.0.0 && <3.5 \|\| >=3.6.0.0 && <3.7 \|\| >=3.8.0.0 && <3.9 \|\| >=3.10.0.0 && <3.11 \|\| >=3.12.0.0 && <3.13 \|\| >=3.14.0.0 && <3.15), Cabal-syntax (>=3.6.0.0 && <3.7 \|\| >=3.8.0.0 && <3.9 \|\| >=3.10.0.0 && <3.11 \|\| >=3.12.0.0 && <3.13 \|\| >=3.14.0.0 && <3.15), case-insensitive (>=1.2.1.0 && <1.3), casing (>=0.1.4.1 && <0.2), conduit (>=1.3 && <1.4), conduit-extra (>=1.3 && <1.4), containers (>=0.6 && <0.8), cryptohash-sha256 (>=0.11.101.0 && <0.12), deepseq (>=1.4 && <1.7), directory (>=1.3.6.0 && <1.4), disk-free-space (>=0.1.0.1 && <0.2), exceptions (>=0.10 && <0.11), file-uri (>=0.1.0.0 && <0.2), filepath (>=1.4.101.0), ghcup, libarchive (>=3.0.3.0 && <3.1), megaparsec (>=8.0.0 && <9.8), mtl (>=2.2 && <2.4), optics (>=0.4 && <0.5), optparse-applicative (>=0.15.1.0 && <0.19), os-release (>=1.0.0 && <1.1), parsec, pretty (>=1.1.3.1 && <1.2), pretty-terminal (>=0.1.0.0 && <0.2), process (>=1.6.11.0 && <1.7), regex-posix (>=0.96 && <0.97), resourcet (>=1.2.2 && <1.4), retry (>=0.8.1.2 && <0.10), safe (>=0.3.18 && <0.4), safe-exceptions (>=0.1 && <0.2), split (>=0.2.3.4 && <0.3), strict-base (>=0.4 && <0.5), tagsoup (>=0.14 && <0.15), template-haskell (>=2.7 && <2.24), temporary (>=1.3 && <1.4), terminal-size (>=0.3.3 && <0.4), text (>=2.0 && <2.2), time (>=1.9.3 && <1.15), transformers (>=0.5 && <0.7), unix (>=2.7 && <2.9), unix-bytestring (>=0.4 && <0.5), unliftio-core (>=0.2.0.1 && <0.3), unordered-containers (>=0.2.10.0 && <0.3), uri-bytestring (>=0.4.0.0 && <0.5), utf8-string (>=1.0 && <1.1), variant (>=1.0 && <1.1), vector (>=0.12 && <0.14), versions (>=6.0.5 && <6.1), vty (>=6.0 && <6.5), Win32 (>=2.10), word8 (>=0.1.3 && <0.2), xz (>=5.6.3 && <5.7), yaml (>=0.11.0 && <0.12), zlib (>=0.6.2.2 && <0.8) [details]
Tested with	ghc ==9.6.6, ghc ==9.4.8, ghc ==9.2.8, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==8.10.7
License	LGPL-3.0-only
Copyright	Julian Ospald 2024
Author	Julian Ospald
Maintainer	hasufell@posteo.de
Uploaded	by maerwald at 2025-05-17T05:14:10Z
Revised	Revision 1 made by maerwald at 2026-01-20T06:09:34Z
Category	System
Home page	https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs
Bug tracker	https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs/issues/
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs.git
Distributions
Executables	ghcup
Downloads	3146 total (107 in the last 30 days)
Rating	2.5 (votes: 3) [estimated by Bayesian average]
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Status	Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2025-06-09 [all 5 reports]