Ghcup Hs Versions Save

New features

• A help screen/tutorial in the TUI by @lsmor (Luis Morillo)
• Beef up --overwrite-version, fixes #998
  • e.g. ghcup compile hls -g master --overwrite-version='%v-%h' --ghc 9.4.8 will produce a binary called haskell-language-server-wrapper-<version-from-cabal-file>-<short-git-commit-hash>... refer to ghcup compile hls --help for more information
• Allow to set ghcup msys2 environment wrt #982
• Add mechanism to warn on new metadata versions, fixes #860
• Add pre-install message support via ghcup metadata, wrt #1016
• Allow to remove all unset versions, fixes #1019
  • e.g.: ghcup gc --unset

Improvements and bug fixes

• Fix potential HSEC-2024-0002
• Fix TUI crash in windows terminal 1.19 #1013
• Clean up on git clone errors, fixes #1004
• Error out on empty UserSettings wrt #922
• Fix failure mode when metadata is garbage, fixes #921
• Be less confusing when user tries to 'set' ghcup in TUI, fixes #923
• Fix prefetch for cross bindists
• Fix misinterpretation of '+' in URI paths, fixes #408
• Stricter (and better) file uri handling
• Set LD=ld.bfd on Alpine linux during bindist configure
• Add rocky/void detection
• Logging improvements
• Remove the "show all tool" config in the TUI
• Fix opening changelog on windows
• Don't remove share dir link prematurely
• Require user to explicitly choose subcommand for 'ghcup config'
• Don't download twice when trying stack decoding

Refactoring and maintenance

• Large TUI code cleanup by @lsmor (Luis Morillo)... more coming up soon
• Allow building with tar instead of libarchive (mainly to make contributions easier)

New features

• support TUI on windows thanks to the work from vty and brick maintainers (Chris Hackett, Timofey Zakrevskiy, Jonathan Daugherty, ...), wrt #912
• support JS and wasm cross compilers wrt #838, thanks to Sylvain Henry and IOG
• Support stacks installation strategy and metadata wrt #892
  • you can now enable stacks installation method via ghcup config set url-source '["GHCupURL", "StackSetupURL"]'... for more information, check the documentation

Improvements and bug fixes

• fix segfault in TUI when hitting enter early wrt #887
• Improve key handling in TUI, fixes #875
• add explicit support for Void Linux and Rocky Linux (this requires a metadata version bump to ghcup-0.0.8.yaml)
• optparse cli interface now has a test suite thanks to Lei Zhu, wrt #862

• Implement support for nightlies, wrt #824
• Fix GC with XDG dirs, fixes #810

• Follow-up fix for JFS/ReiserFS and other filesystem that don't support d_type, fixes #787
  • the previous release had a bug that invalidated that broke it
• Implement 'latest-prerelease' tag wrt #788
• Fix 'Could not parse version of stray directory.DS_Store' warnings on macOs wrt #797

• Fix GHCup on JFS/ReiserFS and other filesystem that don't support d_type, fixes #766
• Don't fail on setModificationTime, fixes #784 and many GitHub actions issues
• Make armv7/aarch64 linux binaries more portable (built on Debian buster)
• Improve usability on 'ghcup config add-release-channel', fixes #751
• Make version shortcuts work with 'ghcup set', fixes #757
• Don't implicitly smuggle in config options in ghcup config set wrt #775
• Fix build on unix with -ftui

• restore proper support for FreeBSD and Linux armv7
• integrate with errors.haskell.org, wrt #434
• allow to overwrite distro detection via config wrt #421
  • this is particularly useful for e.g. Ubuntu derivates, where ghcup doesn't pick the optimal bindist, also see the GHCup documentation on overriding distro detection
• Add proper support for mirrors wrt #357
• fix a (harmless) bug in ghcup nuke on windows
• improvements to ghcup add-release-channel wrt #708
• fix building newer GHC from source wrt #433
• Fix ghcup install hls -u on windows
• Fix failure with --isolate=dir --force
• Add --metadata-fetching-mode arg, fixes #440
• Add content-length property to downloads
• Fix a grave bug on armv7 during installation wrt #415
• improve many warning/error messages (contributions by @taylorfausak)
• some minor optimization in ghcup whereis ghcup
• improve --keep=always to not clean up directories in certain circumstances

Changes

• Implement ghcup run subcommand wrt #137
• Support installation of dynamic HLS bindists wrt HLS #2675 and #237
• Fix XDG support when ~/.local/bin is a symlink wrt #311
• Add support for quilt-style patches wrt #230, by James Hobson
• Fix redundant upgrade warnings in ghcup upgrade
• Fix ghcup whereis ghc for non-standard versions wrt #289
• Don't print logs to stdout, but stderr
• Allow unpacking legacy lzma archives wrt #307
• Allow to disable self-upgrade functionality wrt #305
• Fix ghcup install ghc --set when ghc is already installed wrt #291

Changes

• add --metadata-caching option, allowing to also disable yaml metadata caching wrt #278
• make upgrading ghcup in TUI more pleasant wrt #276
• fix parsing of atypical GHC versions (e.g. 8.10.5-patch1)
• fix compiling HLS dynamically linked, also see #245
• redo (and break) some of the ghcup compile <tool> interface, improving patch options and setting custom cabal.project files
• avoid redundant update warnings wrt #283