[Haskell-cafe] ANN: stack-1.2.0

Sat Sep 17 10:06:43 UTC 2016

Just to note, on OS X, wget is not installed by default. So in one of my 
script I use:

 curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh

instead.

On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 4:05:31 PM UTC+2, Emanuel Borsboom wrote:
>
> See https://haskellstack.org for installation and upgrade instructions.
>
> Release notes:
>
> * On many Un*x systems, Stack can now be installed with a simple
>   one-liner:
>
>         wget -qO- https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh
>
> * The fix for
>   [#2175](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2175)
>   entails that stack must perform a full clone of a large Git repo of
>   Hackage meta-information. The total download size is about 200 MB.
>   Please be aware of this when upgrading your stack installation.
>
> * If you use Mac OS X, you may want to delay upgrading to macOS Sierra as 
> there
>   are reports of GHC panics when building some packages (including Stack
>   itself). See [#2577](
> https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2577)
>
> * This version of Stack does not build on ARM or PowerPC systems (see
>   [store#37](https://github.com/fpco/store/issues/37)).  Please stay with
>   version 1.1.2 for now on those architectures.  This will be rectified 
> soon!
>
> * We are now releasing a
>   [statically linked Stack binary for 64-bit Linux](
> https://www.stackage.org/stack/linux-x86_64-static).
>   Please try it and let us know if you run into any trouble on your 
> platform.
>
> * We are planning some changes to our Linux releases, including dropping 
> our
>   Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and Fedora package repositories and switching to
>   statically linked binaries.  We would value your feedback in
>   [#2534](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2534).
>
> Major changes:
>
> * Add `stack hoogle` command.
>   [#55](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/55)
> * Support for absolute file path in `url` field of `setup-info` or 
> `--ghc-bindist`
> * Add support for rendering GHCi scripts targeting different GHCi like
>   applications
>   [#2457](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/2457)
>
> Behavior changes:
>
> * Remove `stack ide start` and `stack ide load-targets` commands.
>   [#2178](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2178)
> * Support .buildinfo files in `stack ghci`.
>   [#2242](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/2242)
> * Support -ferror-spans syntax in GHC error messages.
> * Avoid unpacking ghc to `/tmp`
>   [#996](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/996)
> * The Linux `gmp4` GHC bindist is no longer considered a full-fledged GHC
>   variant and can no longer be specified using the `ghc-variant` option,
>   and instead is treated more like a slightly different platform.
>
> Other enhancements:
>
> * Use the `store` package for binary serialization of most caches.
> * Only require minor version match for Docker stack exe.
>   This way, we can make patch releases for version bounds and similar
>   build issues without needing to upload new binaries for Docker.
> * Stack/Nix: Passes the right ghc derivation as an argument to the 
> `shell.nix` when a
>   custom `shell.nix` is used
>   See [#2243](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2243)
> * Stack/Nix: Sets `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` so packages using C libs for Template 
> Haskell can work
>   (See _e.g._ [this HaskellR issue](
> https://github.com/tweag/HaskellR/issues/253))
> * Parse CLI arguments and configuration files into less permissive types,
>   improving error messages for bad inputs.
>   [#2267](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2267)
> * Add the ability to explictly specify a gcc executable.
>   [#593](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/593)
> * Nix: No longer uses LTS mirroring in nixpkgs. Gives to nix-shell a 
> derivation
>   like `haskell.compiler.ghc801`
>   See [#2259](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2259)
> * Perform some subprocesses during setup concurrently, slightly speeding 
> up most
>   commands. [#2346](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/2346)
> * `stack setup` no longer unpacks to the system temp dir on posix systems.
>   [#996](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/996)
> * `stack setup` detects libtinfo6 and ncurses6 and can download alternate 
> GHC
>   bindists [#257](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/257)
>   [#2302](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2302).
> * `stack setup` detects Linux ARMv7 downloads appropriate GHC bindist
>   [#2103](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2103)
> * Custom `stack` binaries list dependency versions in output for 
> `--version`.
>   See [#2222](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2222)
>   and [#2450](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2450).
> * Use a pretty printer to output dependency resolution errors.
>   [#1912](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/1912)
> * Remove the `--os` flag
>   [#2227](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2227)
> * Add 'netbase' and 'ca-certificates' as dependency for .deb packages.
>   [#2293](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2293).
> * Add `stack ide targets` command.
> * Enhance debug logging with subprocess timings.
> * Pretty-print YAML parse errors
>   [#2374](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2374)
> * Clarify confusing `stack setup` output
>   [#2314](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2314)
> * Delete `Stack.Types` multimodule to improve build times
>   [#2405](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2405)
> * Remove spurious newlines in build logs
>   [#2418](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2418)
> * Interpreter: Provide a way to hide implicit packages
>   [#1208](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/1208)
> * Check executability in exec lookup
>   [#2489](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2489)
>
> Bug fixes:
>
> * Fix cabal warning about use of a deprecated cabal flag
>   [#2350](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2350)
> * Support most executable extensions on Windows
>   [#2225](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2225)
> * Detect resolver change in `stack solver`
>   [#2252](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2252)
> * Fix a bug in docker image creation where the wrong base image was
>   selected
>   [#2376](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2376)
> * Ignore special entries when unpacking tarballs
>   [#2361](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2361)
> * Fixes src directory pollution of `style.css` and `highlight.js` with GHC 
> 8's
>   haddock [#2429](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2429)
> * Handle filepaths with spaces in `stack ghci`
>   [#2266](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2266)
> * Apply ghc-options to snapshot packages
>   [#2289](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2289)
> * stack sdist: Fix timestamp in tarball
>   [#2394](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/2394)
> * Allow global Stack arguments with a script
>   [#2316](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2316)
> * Inconsistency between ToJSON and FromJSON instances of PackageLocation
>   [#2412](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/2412)
> * Perform Unicode normalization on filepaths
>   [#1810](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/1810)
> * Solver: always keep ghc wired-in as hard constraints
>   [#2453](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2453)
> * Support OpenBSD's tar where possible, require GNU tar for xz support
>   [#2283](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2283)
> * Fix using --coverage with Cabal-1.24
>   [#2424](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2424)
> * When marking exe installed, remove old version
>   [#2373](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2373)
> * Stop truncating all-cabal-hashes git repo
>   [#2175](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2175)
> * Handle non-ASCII filenames on Windows
>   [#2491](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2491)
> * Avoid using multiple versions of a package in script interpreter
>   by passing package-id to ghc/runghc
>   [#1957](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/1957)
> * Only pre-load compiler version when using nix integration
>   [#2459](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2459)
> * Solver: parse cabal errors also on Windows
>   [#2502](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2502)
> * Allow exec and ghci commands in interpreter mode.
>   Scripts can now automatically open in the repl by using `exec ghci`
>   instead of `runghc` in the shebang command.
>   [#2510](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2510)
> * Now consider a package to be dirty when an extra-source-file is changed.
>   See [#2040](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2040)
>
> Thanks to all our contributors for this release:
>
> * Aaron Friel
> * Andrew Cowie
> * AndrewRademacher
> * Anton Felix Lorenzen
> * Brian McKenna
> * Chris Done
> * Dan Aloni
> * danald
> * Daniel Casanueva
> * Denis
> * Denis Kasak
> * Emanuel Borsboom
> * erewok
> * Gabor Greif
> * Gurkenglas
> * Harendra Kumar
> * hesiod
> * Judah Jacobson
> * Khan Thompson
> * Mathieu Boespflug
> * Michael Sloan
> * Michael Snoyman
> * Mohit Agarwal
> * Moritz Angermann
> * Oleg Grenrus
> * Paolo G. Giarrusso
> * Philipp Kant
> * Ryan Desfosses
> * Sid Kapur
> * Sidharth Kapur
> * Simon Jakobi
> * Tim Dysinger
> * Tim Düsterhus
> * Tobias Markus
> * YPares
> * Yuriy Syrovetskiy
> * Yves Parès (Ywen)
> * ___
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