Changelog for haskell-debugger-0.10.0.0

Revision history for haskell-debugger

Adds Custom Debug Visualisations!
- The value inspection internals were refactored to always try first to use a custom visualization and fallback to the general-case visualization which mimics the heap representation of a value.
- We ship a handful of custom visualisations for base types like String, Int, etc, and for types from a few core packages: Text, ByteString, Map and IntMap.
- The user can add custom visualizations for the desired types by implementing an instance for DebugView from haskell-debugger-view
  - At runtime, hdb will pick up the DebugView instances in scope and use them when possible.
- When the package dependency closure includes haskell-debugger-view, we will use that unit specifically. When it is not in the dependencies, we will load a built-in version in memory.
Evaluate requests now return a structured and expandable response, akin to the variables pane
- To show the whole value inline one can recover the previous behavior by calling show on the value to display.
- This makes it possible to have structured results in the "Watch" pane.
Adds support for conditional breakpoints and hit count breakpoints
Bug fixes in variable inspection
Bug fixes in multiple-home-units

Run a proxy program with runInTerminal to allow stdin via the terminal process, if the client supports it.

Fix bug where build failures were reported in a pop-up rather than stderr
Fix crashes panicking with findUnitIdOfEntryFile
Fix cli bug by use absolute entryFile path
Fix bug caused by not canonicalizing special target and root
Fix in variable expansion (expand Terms iteratively as the user expands the tree)

Allow defaults for all settings except entryFile and return a proper error in that case
Fix bug that crashed debugger when attempting to load newtype constructor closure
Fix bug that broke displaying newtype variables
(Vscode) Allow the debugger to be run without a launch.json file
Don't display functions as a forceable thunk, instead just the type
Add --version flag

Fix line buffering of debuggee output (thus, stepping through a print line, will indeed print it to the console now).
- In fact, this was only caused by not building with --enable-executable-dynamic

Improve unit handling and fix running when main functions exist across different units
- Add interactive home unit id
- The entry file determines which of the mains to run.
Add proper option parsing
Add preview version of hdb cli interactive mode, as an alternative to DAP server
- Experimental and incomplete
Fix: output uncaught exceptions to stderr
Fix: output eval completed result to console

Compatibility with GHC 9.14
Add support for stepping out of functions as a tech preview
Use implicit cradle discovery to better support multiple configurations, mirroring HLS (and thus providing a more similar experience)
Query the GHC runtime version via hie-bios, now honoring e.g. with-compiler: ... in cabal.project to fetch the right GHC version
Rename package from ghc-debugger to haskell-debugger, and ghc-debug-adapter to hdb, to be consistent with other tools and ecosystems and to avoid ambiguity with ghc-debug (program heap analysis library and tool)
Use cache directories for hdb to have faster startup times. This will only be enabled for compilers supporting the upcoming .gbc (compiled bytecode artifact) files.