We're happy to announce the release of cabal-dev 0.8! This version is
available on hackage now, and contains many bug fixes and improvements,
as outlined in the full release notes below.
--Rogan
cabal-dev release 0.8
==
The 0.8 release of `cabal-dev` fixes many of the bugs that have been
reported by `cabal-dev` users. It also provides more flexible, easier
configuration and improves tool support for working within the
`cabal-dev` sandbox (ghc-pkg suport and better ghci support). Upgrading
is recommended for all users.
Please report any bugs or submit enhancement requests to
https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues.
Much of the work on this release (and previous releases) of
`cabal-dev` was funded by Galois, Inc. http://www.galois.com/
About cabal-dev
==
`cabal-dev` is a Haskell build tool that augments Cabal and
cabal-install to make it convenient to work with a sandboxed set of
packages. It limits the effect of your build on unrelated parts of
your system. Among other things, `cabal-dev` satisfies the following
needs:
* Avoid conflicts between libraries by working only with the set of
packages that are needed for the current project.
* Enable depending on a patched dependency without that patched
dependency accidentally being used by another project's build.
* Enable the simultaneous development of multiple interdependent
packages without the development versions leaking to other project
build environments.
Significant effort has been made to ensure that `cabal-dev` works across
platforms (Mac, Windows, and Linux) and with the versions of GHC that
are most commonly in use (6.10-7.0).
What's new
==
Details can be found on github at
https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev.
Bugs fixed:
* `cabal-dev` no longer passes `--verbose` to cabal-install commands that
do not accept it. https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues/18
* `cabal-dev` now recognizes and passes through short flags to
cabal-install. In particular, this bug frequently came up when
attempting to pass a flag (`-f`) to `cabal-dev install`.
https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues/6
* `cabal-dev` now supports all cabal-install commands, including
`test`. https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues/10
* We also made changes that should address inconsistencies with the
remote repository (Hackage) cache location, but those issues remain
open until we have confirmation from end users (you!) that these
changes actually fix those issues.
https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues/15 and
https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues/14
Enhancements and new features:
* `cabal-dev ghci` now invokes ghci with the exact same set of flags
that would be used in a cabal-install build (using a trick copied
from Leksah). This means that it will now have the appropriate
package visibility, language settings, and source directories set
when it is invoked.
Note that in order for `cabal-dev ghci` to work, all dependencies
must already be installed in the sandbox, and the package must
already be configured.
* `cabal-dev buildopts` will print the set of build options that would
be passed to GHC when invoking `cabal build`. You can then use these
flags for other tools that invoke GHC (e.g. the doctest package
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/doctest).
* `cabal-dev ghc-pkg` will invoke `ghc-pkg` with the appropriate flags
to examine or alter the package database inside the `cabal-dev`
sandbox.
* `cabal-dev` now has more flexible support for cabal-install
configuration:
* By default `cabal-dev` will now use any settings from your
cabal-install configuration file, except those that must be
overridden in order to sandbox the build. This makes it more
convenient to e.g. use an alternate remote repository with
`cabal-dev`.
* `cabal-dev` now supports merging of additional cabal-install
configuration settings, to make it easy to work with multiple
cabal-install configurations (`--extra-config-file=...`).
* `cabal-dev` now has a flag to pass explicit options to cabal-install
in case there are any conflicts between `cabal-dev` flags
(`--cabal-install-arg`).
* `cabal-dev` now has a flag to specify a particular cabal-install
executable to use (`--with-cabal-install=...`).
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