Hideyuki Tanaka was missing from the list of contributors (his patch was applied through me). His contribution made 'cabal update' faster!
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > On behalf of the cabal maintainers and contributors I'm proud to > announce the Cabal (and cabal-install) 1.18.0 release. To install run > > cabal update && cabal install Cabal-1.18.0 cabal-install-1.18.0 > > With 854 commits since the last release there are two many > improvements and bug fixes to list them here, but two highlights are: > > * Hermetic builds using sandboxes. This should reduce the number of > "dependency hell" and broken package DB problems. > > * GHCi support. It's now much easier to use ghci when developing your > packages, especially if those packages require preprocessors (e.g. > hsc2hs). > > Here's how working on a package might look like using the new features: > > # Only once: > cabal sandbox init > cabal install --only-dependencies --enable-tests > # Configure, build, and run tests: > cabal test # now implies configure and build > # Play around with the code in GHCi: > cabal repl > > Mikhail wrote a bit more about the user visible changes on his blog: > > http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2013-08-21-Cabal-1-18.html > > For a complete list of changes run > > git log cabal-install-v1.16.0.2..cabal-install-v1.18.0 > > in the cabal repo or look at the GitHub compare page: > > > https://github.com/haskell/cabal/compare/cabal-install-v1.16.0.2...cabal-install-v1.18.0 > > (only shows the last 250 commits). > > 57 people contributed to this release! > > 503 Mikhail Glushenkov > 99 Johan Tibell > 41 Duncan Coutts > 39 Ian Lynagh > 19 Brent Yorgey > 19 Thomas Tuegel > 18 Ben Millwood > 16 Eyal Lotem > 10 Thomas Dziedzic > 7 Andres Loeh > 6 John Wiegley > 6 Benno Fünfstück > 5 Gregory Collins > 4 Herbert Valerio Riedel > 4 Simon Hengel > 3 Joachim Breitner > 3 Luke Iannini > 3 Bryan Richter > 3 Richard Eisenberg > 3 Tuncer Ayaz > 3 Jens Petersen > 2 Arun Tejasvi Chaganty > 2 Bryan O'Sullivan > 2 Eric Kow > 2 Jookia > 2 Paolo G. Giarrusso > 2 Paolo Capriotti > 1 Sönke Hahn > 1 Yitzchak Gale > 1 Albert Krewinkel > 1 stepcut > 1 Alexander Kjeldaas > 1 Austin Seipp > 1 Bardur Arantsson > 1 Ben Doyle > 1 Ben Gamari > 1 Bram > 1 Carter Tazio Schonwald > 1 Clint Adams > 1 Daniel Wagner > 1 David Lazar > 1 Erik Hesselink > 1 Eugene Sukhodolin > 1 Gabor Greif > 1 Jack Henahan > 1 Jason Dagit > 1 Ken Bateman > 1 Mark Lentczner > 1 Masahiro Yamauchi > 1 Merijn Verstraaten > 1 Michael Thompson > 1 Niklas Hambüchen > 1 Oleksandr Manzyuk > 1 Patrick Premont > 1 Roman Cheplyaka > 1 Sergei Trofimovich > 1 Stephen Blackheath > > -- Johan, on behalf of the cabal maintainers and contributors. >
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