[Haskell-cafe] ANN: cabal-install-1.16.0 (and Cabal-1.16.0.1)

[Austin Seipp]

Hi,

Just a heads up: on Ubuntu 12.04 with GHC 7.4.1 out of apt (no
haskell-platform,) using the bootstrap.sh script fails, because the
constraints for CABAL_VER_REGEXP are too lax:

$ sh ./bootstrap.sh
Checking installed packages for ghc-7.4.1...
Cabal is already installed and the version is ok.
transformers is already installed and the version is ok.
mtl is already installed and the version is ok.
deepseq is already installed and the version is ok.
text is already installed and the version is ok.
parsec is already installed and the version is ok.
network is already installed and the version is ok.
time is already installed and the version is ok.
HTTP is already installed and the version is ok.
zlib is already installed and the version is ok.
random is already installed and the version is ok.
cleaning...
Linking Setup ...
Configuring cabal-install-1.16.0...
Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
Cabal >=1.16.0 && <1.18

Error during cabal-install bootstrap:
Configuring the cabal-install package failed
$ ghc-pkg list Cabal
/var/lib/ghc/package.conf.d
   Cabal-1.14.0
/home/a/.ghc/x86_64-linux-7.4.1/package.conf.d
$

In bootstrap.sh, we see:

CABAL_VER="1.16.0";    CABAL_VER_REGEXP="1\.(13\.3|1[4-7]\.)"  # >=
1.13.3 && < 1.18

The constraint should be updated so that it requires 1.16. It can be
fixed by saying:

CABAL_VER="1.16.0";    CABAL_VER_REGEXP="1\.(1[6-7]\.)"  # >= 1.16 && < 1.18

Otherwise, you can't get any new cabal install without the platform.
Or you have to get 1.14, then install 1.16 via 'cabal install'.

I'll file a bug later today.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the behalf of the many contributors to cabal, I'm proud to present
> cabal-install-1.16.0. This release contains almost a year worth of
> patches. Highlights include:
>
>  * Parallel installs (cabal install -j)
>  * Several improvements to the dependency solver.
>  * Lots of bugfixes
>
> We're also simultaneously releasing Cabal-1.16.0.1, which address a few bugs.
>
> To install:
>
>     cabal update
>     cabal install cabal-install-1.16.0 Cabal-1.16.0.1
>
> Complete list of changes in cabal-install-1.16.0:
>
> * Bump cabal-install version number to 1.16.0
> * Extend the unpack command for the .cabal file updating
> * On install, update the .cabal file with the one from the index
> * Make compatible with `network-2.4` API
> * Update ZLIB_VER in bootstrap.sh for ghc-7.6 compatibility
> * cabal-install.cabal: add Distribution.Client.JobControl and
> Distribution.Compat.Time
> * Adapt bootstrap.sh to ghc-7.6 changes
> * Move comment that was missed in a refactoring
> * cabal-install: Adapt for GHC 7.6
> * Ensure that the cabal-install logfile gets closed
> * Make cabal-install build with Cabal-1.16.
> * Initialise the 'jobs' config file setting with the current number of
> CPU cores.
> * Update version bounds for directory.
> * Update bootstrap.sh to match platform 2012.2.0.0
> * Relax dependency on containers.
> * Bump versions.
> * Better output for parallel install.
> * Fix warnings.
> * Remove 'tryCachedSetupExecutable'.
> * Redundant import.
> * Use a lock instead of 'JobControl 1'.
> * Comments, cosmetic changes.
> * Implement the setup executable cache.
> * Add the missing JobControl module
> * Fix missing import after merge of par build patches
> * Fix impl of PackageIndex.allPackagesByName
> * Drop the "ghc-options: -rtsopts" on cabal-install. We do not need it.
> * Parallelise the install command This is based on Mikhail Glushenkov's patches.
> * InstallPlan: Add a Processing package state.
> * Add a '-j' flag for the 'install' command.
> * Add -threaded and -rtsopts to cabal-install's ghc-options.
> * Fix typos.
> * Fix warnings.
> * 80-col violation.
> * Spelling.
> * Fix warnings.
> * Extended a comment.
> * Force the log for the error to be printed in parallel with the complete trace.
> * Remove goal choice nodes after reordering is completed.
> * Make modular solver handle manual flags properly.
> * Store manual flag info in search tree.
> * Maintain info about manual flags in modular solver.
> * Fix cabal-install build.
> * Merge pull request #6 from pcapriotti/master
> * Adapt to change in GHC package db flags.
> * Merge pull request #1 from iustin/master
> * Add support for Apache 2.0 license to cabal-install
> * Handle test and bench stanzas without dependencies properly in modular solver.
> * Updated repo location in cabal files.
> * last-minute README changes
> * updated copyright year for Duncan
> * updated changelog
> * added deepseq to bootstrap.sh
> * handling the solver options properly in config file
> * handling the "optimization" option properly in config file
> * Update cabal-install bootstrap.sh
> * treat packages that are unknown no longer as an "internal error" in
> modular solver
> * minor wording change when printing install plans
> * no longer pre-filter broken packages for modular solver
> * for empty install plans, print the packages that are installed
> * make the reinstall check less noisy
> * disable line-wrapping for solver debug output
> * adding a solver flag for shadowing of installed packages
> * adding the possibility for index-disabled packages
> * choose default solver based on compiler version
> * Added a comment
> * Use the new --package-db flag stuff in cabal-install
> * head cabal-install requires head Cabal
> * Fix ticket #731
> * Add brief description of PVP to cabal init generated .cabal files
> * Bump versions to 1.15 and 0.15 This is the head branch, the 1.14.x
> and 0.14.x are in the 1.14 branch.
> * init: guess at filling in deps in the build-depends: field
> * init: see whether source directory 'src' exists.
> * init: improve prompt: enclose y/n in parens
> * init: improve prompt: 'homepage' field is not for repos.
> * bootstrap with --global should still respect $PREFIX
> * Update cabal-install boostrap.sh package versions
> * Fix 'cabal configure --enable-{tests,benchmarks}'. 'cabal configure'
> was not adding optional stanza constraints when checking dependencies,
> causing '--enable-{tests,benchmarks}' to be silently ignored.
> * added missing error message
> * Don't try to run test suites where none exist.
> * Fixed non-exhaustive pattern matches with new InstallOutcome.
> * Automatically run test suites when invoked with 'cabal install
> --enable-tests'. Do not install if tests fail.
> * make test and bench available as user constraints
> * let --reinstall imply --force-reinstalls for targets
> * stanza support in modular solver
> * show optional stanzas when printing install plans
> * Added a missing case.
> * Enable tests and benchmarks in cabal-install without modifications
> to the Cabal library.
> * Don't build benchmarks, even if installing benchmark dependencies.
> * Update types in modular dependency solver to compile with new
> test/benchmark dependency constraints.
> * Handle test and benchmark dependencies through the resolver properly.
> * updating dependencies in bootstrap.sh
> * fix compilation with ghc-7.4
> * Added a comment.
> * removing trailing whitespace
> * removing datatype contexts
> * Now require mtl-2
>
> Complete list of changes in Cabal-1.16.0.1:
>
> * Bump Cabal version number to 1.16.0.1
> * Fix failing test
> * Do not pass -XHaskell98 to older compilers (fixes #1016)
> * don't test --disable-library-vanilla for now
> * Fix logic for building dynamic executables with TemplateHaskell
> * Fix the logic for building profiled executables with TemplateHaskell.
> * add test for non-vanilla profiling and dynamic builds with Template Haskell
> * Build Setup executables without HPC. Fixes #1012.
> * Make 'viewAsFieldDescr' a total function.
>
> Cheers,
>   Johan & Bryan
>
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-- 
Regards,
Austin