[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

[Johan Tibell]

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.tibell at 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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