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

[JP Moresmau]

The very day before this announcement, I was porting my buildwrapper
library to GHC 7.6.1, and then noticed that I couldn't get a version
of cabal-install built with the Cabal library shipped with GHC. I
thought "I'm not going to bother anybody, I'll just wait", and the
next day, hop, there it is! Thanks guys, much appreciated!
Installed on a Windows XP with GHC 7.6.1 with no issue. Even network
installed first time with a properly configured MSYS shell.
After porting buildwrapper, 100% of the test cases pass, I'm happy.

Thanks to all for this release!

JP

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM, 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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