<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>We're close to a new release of Cabal/cabal-install and I'd appreciate some help in testing the new release. To install the release candidate, simply run:</div><div>
<br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">cabal install <a href="http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.18.0.tar.gz">http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.18.0.tar.gz</a> <a href="http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.18.0.tar.gz">http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.18.0.tar.gz</a></font><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Please try on different OSes if you have several available. Report bugs at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Things to try</b></div><div><br></div><div>This is not a complete list of new features (and bugs fixed)!</div><div><br></div><div><b>Sandboxing</b></div><div><br></div><div>Sandboxes help prevent "dependency hell" by having each project you're working on use a separate package database to install its dependencies in. Try it out on one of your projects like so:</div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">cd my-pkg</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">cabal sandbox init # only once</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">cabal install --only-dependencies</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">cabal configure</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">cabal build</font></div><div><br></div><div><b>GHCi support</b></div><div><br></div><div>The new <font face="courier new, monospace">cabal repl</font> commands lets you load up your library inside GHCi without lots of command line fiddling. Just run</div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">cabal repl</font></div><div><br></div><div>instead of <font face="courier new, monospace">cabal build</font> and play around without your library.</div><div><br></div>
<b>Known issues to be fixed before release</b><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1439">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1439</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Johan</div>
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