Cabal-1.18.0 and cabal-install-1.18.0 release candidates (please test)

[Johan Tibell]

830b16a5acffb5038f7af978f638c93ef3e184fd on master.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What does it correspond to in git? Is it the cabal-install-1.18 branch,
> or master, or something else?
>
> Roman
>
> * Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> [2013-08-26 15:12:22-0230]
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We're close to a new release of Cabal/cabal-install and I'd appreciate
> some
> > help in testing the new release. To install the release candidate, simply
> > run:
> >
> > cabal install http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.18.0.tar.gz
> > http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.18.0.tar.gz
> >
> > Please try on different OSes if you have several available. Report bugs
> at
> >
> > https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues
> >
> > *Things to try*
> >
> > This is not a complete list of new features (and bugs fixed)!
> >
> > *Sandboxing*
> >
> > Sandboxes help prevent "dependency hell" by having each project you're
> > working on use a separate package database to install its dependencies
> in.
> > Try it out on one of your projects like so:
> >
> > cd my-pkg
> > cabal sandbox init  # only once
> > cabal install --only-dependencies
> > cabal configure
> > cabal build
> >
> > *GHCi support*
> >
> > The new cabal repl commands lets you load up your library inside GHCi
> > without lots of command line fiddling. Just run
> >
> > cabal repl
> >
> > instead of cabal build and play around without your library.
> >
> > *Known issues to be fixed before release*
> >
> > https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1439
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Johan
>
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>
>
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