[ANN] GHCup 0.1.17 release

Announcements
#1

How to upgrade

ghcup upgrade

Or follow https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/ if you haven’t installed yet.

Changelog

  • Add --force option to install/compile wrt #210 by Arjun Kathuria
  • Implement compiling HLS from source wrt #201
  • Implement experimental GPG verification of the metadata file (see README) wrt #263
  • Add ghcup unset command wrt #145
  • Add ghcup whereis bindir etc wrt #221
  • Greatly reduce dependency footprint wrt #212
  • Add ghcup --plan-json
  • Improve --patchdir option for GHC compilation wrt #226
  • Try to improve logging and failure modes, especially during downloads
  • Add descriptive warnings when HLS and GHC versions are incompatible
  • Improve curl header parsing wrt #213

FAQ

Since there have been a lot of “why should I use ghcup” etc. questions, I wrote up an FAQ: https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs#faq

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#2

Thank you and other contributors for your continuous work on this project. I’ve started using it recently, especially on an M1 macbook, and the experience has been good.

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#3

Great work as usual, thanks specially for the compile hls feature, i am just installing a custom version with

 ghcup compile hls --repository https://github.com/pepeiborra/ide.git --overwrite-version new-shake --cabal-project cabal-ghc901.project --git-ref reimplement-shake 9.0.1
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#4

I was able to upgrade with ghcup upgrade, but I don’t see 0.1.17 available for manual install here: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghcup/.

#5

The download server has a cache. It can be purged with e.g. curl. Try https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghcup/0.1.17/

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#6

That did the trick. Thank you!

I was also able to defeat the cache by appending a bogus query parameter, like https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghcup/?1.