Release: stan, supporting GHCs 8.8-9.4

Announcements
#1

I’m pleased to announce a new release of stan, a static analysis tool for Haskell. stan now supports GHCs in the range 8.8-9.4[1].

About stan

Stan is a command-line tool for analysing Haskell projects. It discovers which parts of the code can potentially be improved, and offers suggestions on how to do so. Read more about stan in its README.

Installation

I recommend obtaining stan from Hackage by following the installation instructions in the README.

Help wanted

stan lacks active maintainers and is currently in essential maintainance only mode. I am helping out to make sure stan can continue to build with newer GHCs. I would welcome assistance, particularly on the following issues:

  • Supporting GHC 9.6
  • Supporting GHC 9.8
  • Prospective support for GHC 9.10
  • Fixing caching on Github Actions

If you would like to contribute to Stan please create an issue on the Github repository.

Credits

Thanks to the Kowainik team for creating stan in the first place. Thanks to Veronika Romashkina for accepting me as a new maintainer for the project.

[1] Some point releases are excluded because the GHC API doesn’t seem to provide enough type information, notably the later releases in the 9.2 series.

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#2

A good candidate for cabal external command, happy to see this is maintained.

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#3

Many thanks for developing further this tool. GHC 9.4 support means I have been able to re-enable it as part of the Stack project’s ‘CI’ - and I see GHC 9.6/Cabal 3.10 support is now available in stan-0.1.0.1 on Hackage.

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