ANN: Cabal and cabal-install 1.22.3.0 released

[Ryan Thomas]

Thanks Miëtek, I'll update the page and wording this evening (UTC) -
do you have some preferred wording I should use on the page?

Cheers,

ryan

On 6 May 2015 at 05:03, Miëtek Bak <mietek at bak.io> wrote:
> Ryan,
>
> cabal-install binaries for 1.20.1.0, 1.22.3.0, and 1.22.4.0 are now available in Halcyon on the following platforms:
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> - Amazon Linux 2014.09 (x86_64)
> - Arch Linux (x86_64)
> - CentOS 6 (i386 and x86_64)
> - CentOS 7 (x86_64)
> - Debian 6 (i386 and x86_64)
> - Debian 7 (i386 and x86_64)
> - Fedora 20 (i386 and x86_64)
> - Fedora 21 (x86_64)
> - openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64)
> - OS X 10.8 (x86_64)
> - OS X 10.9 (x86_64)
> - OS X 10.10 (x86_64)
> - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86_64)
> - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x86_64)
> - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)
> - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (x86_64)
> - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (i386 and x86_64)
> - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (i386 and x86_64)
> - Ubuntu 14.10 (i386 and x86_64)
>
> Fedora 19 (i386 and x86_64), Red Hat Enterprise Linus 6 (i386), and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (i386) are gone.  Support for Debian 8 and Ubuntu 15.04 is coming soon.
>
> Please note the Cabal download page is currently misleading users into believing they can download cabal-binaries directly from the Halcyon website.  This is not the case.  The idea is to use Halcyon to set up a Haskell environment, without depending on packages provided (or, more likely, not provided) by the distribution maintainers.
>
>
> --
> Miëtek
> https://mietek.io
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-04-20, at 15:56, Ryan Thomas <ryan at ryant.org> wrote:
>
>> A minor release of Cabal and cabal-install has been completed.
>>
>> This is available for download on haskell.org as well as hackage. The
>> main reason for this release was a fix for the ghcjs-pkg version
>> number handling. The changelog entries for both are below.
>>
>> Cabal:
>> 1.22.3.0 Ryan Thomas <ryan at ryant.org> April 2015
>>        * Fix for the ghcjs-pkg version number handling (Luite Stegeman)
>>        * filterConfigureFlags: filter more flags (Mikhail Glushenkov)
>>        * Cabal check will fail on -fprof-auto passed as a ghc-option
>> - Fixes #2479 (John Chee)
>>
>> cabal-install:
>> 1.22.3.0 Ryan Thomas <ryan at ryant.org> April 2015
>>        * Fix bash completion for sandbox subcommands - Fixes #2513
>> (Mikhail Glushenkov)
>>        * filterConfigureFlags: filter more flags (Mikhail Glushenkov)
>>
>> Miëtek, Mikhail: If you would be willing to build the additional
>> binaries as was done with 1.22.2.0 I will update the downloads page
>> with them too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ryan
>