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Currently, we assume uniqueness of the tags `recommended` and `latest`. This is mostly true when combining e.g. the default metadata with cross or with prereleases. However, if a user wanted...
Some distributions have support for reading news, e.g. Gentoo: * https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0042.html * https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Reading_news_items We could facilitate a similar mechanism, to be able to communicate: * important updates to GHCup *...
Expand on * philosophy * goals * where ghcup exactly puts files and what is considered "interface" * how metadata works and all their intricacies * ... Also write a...
See https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs/issues/902 for reasoning. This would require funding. @bgamari
Currently we have to use the `Latest` tag, even in prerelease channel: https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/blob/b2843da01627beb1989ad78e4435bec333f70f09/ghcup-prereleases-0.0.7.yaml#L1531-L1535
The main issues are: 1. passing additional flags to build configure... 2. but also passing additional flags to bindist configure 3. and also passing additional flags to hadrian itself Currently...
Life is full of surprises. GHCup is a small tool, but has seen such wide adoption that having only a single active maintainer is problematic for the project and the...
Since we're now starting to support more and more metadata files (prereleases, nightlies, cross, ...), there has been an inflation in download time. Parallelizing might somewhat alleviate this.