[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] cabal-clean 0.2

[Andreas Abel]

cabal-clean 0.2 has just been released!

   https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-clean-0.2.20220819

New:
- Also removes builds by GHCs which are no longer in the PATH
   (so, arepresumably uninstalled).
- Fixed to work also under Windows.

On 2021-09-24 19:09, Andreas Abel wrote:
> === Wondering where your disk space goes with too many Haskell projects 
> compiled with too many GHC versions? ===
> 
>    https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-clean
>    https://github.com/andreasabel/cabal-clean
> 
> `cabal-clean` is a small executable that removes outdated cabal build 
> artifacts from `dist-newstyle`.
> 
> A build tree is considered outdated if there is one with either
> 
>    - a newer version of the package you are building, or
>    - a newer minor version of the GHC compiler.
> 
> In contrast to `cabal clean`, the tool `cabal-clean` retains the latest 
> build trees for each GHC major version.  Thus, it is geared towards 
> multi-GHC development.
> 
> Example: (self-applied to cabal-clean's build directory)
> 
>      ---    3.7M    ghc-8.8.4 /cabal-clean-0.1.20210815
>      ---    3.5M    ghc-8.10.6/cabal-clean-0.1.20210815
>      ---    3.7M    ghc-9.0.1 /cabal-clean-0.1.20210815
>      ---    3.5M    ghc-8.10.6/cabal-clean-0.1.20210924
>      +++    3.6M    ghc-8.10.7/cabal-clean-0.1.20210924
>      +++    3.7M    ghc-9.0.1 /cabal-clean-0.1.20210924
> 
> The directories prefixed with --- will be deleted, the ones with +++ 
> retained.
> 
> Disclaimers:
> 
>    1. cabal-clean does not check whether deletion will cause dangling 
> references like broken symlinks etc.  (Could happen if you created a 
> symlink to an executable that resides in one of the deleted build 
> directories.)
> 
>    2. cabal-clean does not read nor utilize information from the .cabal 
> file.
> 
>    3. Calls `du` ("disk usage"), so, might not work on Windows.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Andreas
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