changelog

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0.10.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@community.haskell.org> February 2011
	* New package targets: local dirs, local and remote tarballs
	* Initial support for a "world" package target
	* Partial fix for situation where user packages mask global ones
	* Removed cabal upgrade, new --upgrade-dependencies flag
	* New cabal install --only-dependencies flag
	* New cabal fetch --no-dependencies and --dry-run flags
	* Improved output for cabal info
	* Simpler and faster bash command line completion
	* Fix for broken proxies that decompress wrongly
	* Fix for cabal unpack to preserve executable permissions
	* Adjusted the output for the -v verbosity level in a few places

0.8.2 Duncan Coutts <duncan@community.haskell.org> March 2010
	* Fix for cabal update on Windows
	* On windows switch to per-user installs (rather than global)
	* Handle intra-package dependencies in dependency planning
	* Minor tweaks to cabal init feature
	* Fix various -Wall warnings
	* Fix for cabal sdist --snapshot

0.8.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Dec 2009
	* Works with ghc-6.12
	* New "cabal init" command for making initial project .cabal file
	* New feature to maintain an index of haddock documentation

0.6.4 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Nov 2009
	* Improve the algorithm for selecting the base package version
	* Hackage errors now reported by "cabal upload [--check]"
	* Improved format of messages from "cabal check"
	* Config file can now be selected by an env var
	* Updated tar reading/writing code
	* Improve instructions in the README and bootstrap output
	* Fix bootstrap.sh on Solaris 9
	* Fix bootstrap for systems where network uses parsec 3
	* Fix building with ghc-6.6

0.6.2 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Feb 2009
	* The upgrade command has been disabled in this release
	* The configure and install commands now have consistent behaviour
	* Reduce the tendancy to re-install already existing packages
	* The --constraint= flag now works for the install command
	* New --preference= flag for soft constraints / version preferences
	* Improved bootstrap.sh script, smarter and better error checking
	* New cabal info command to display detailed info on packages
	* New cabal unpack command to download and untar a package
	* HTTP-4000 package required, should fix bugs with http proxies
	* Now works with authenticated proxies.
	* On Windows can now override the proxy setting using an env var
	* Fix compatability with config files generated by older versions
	* Warn if the hackage package list is very old
	* More helpful --help output, mention config file and examples
	* Better documentation in ~/.cabal/config file
	* Improved command line interface for logging and build reporting
	* Minor improvements to some messages

0.6.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Oct 2008
	* Constraint solver can now cope with base 3 and base 4
	* Allow use of package version preferences from hackage index
	* More detailed output from cabal install --dry-run -v
	* Improved bootstrap.sh

0.5.2 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Aug 2008
	* Suport building haddock documentaion
	* Self-reinstall now works on Windows
	* Allow adding symlinks to excutables into a separate bindir
	* New self-documenting config file
	* New install --reinstall flag
	* More helpful status messages in a couple places
	* Upload failures now report full text error message from the server
	* Support for local package repositories
	* New build logging and reporting
	* New command to upload build reports to (a compatible) server
	* Allow tilde in hackage server URIs
	* Internal code improvements
	* Many other minor improvements and bug fixes

0.5.1 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> June 2008
	* Restore minimal hugs support in dependency resolver
	* Fix for disabled http proxies on Windows
	* Revert to global installs on Windows by default

0.5.0 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> June 2008
	* New package dependency resolver, solving diamond dep problem
	* Integrate cabal-setup functionality
	* Integrate cabal-upload functionality
	* New cabal update and check commands
	* Improved behavior for install and upgrade commands
	* Full Windows support
	* New command line handling
	* Bash command line completion
	* Allow case insensitive package names on command line
	* New --dry-run flag for install, upgrade and fetch commands
	* New --root-cmd flag to allow installing as root
	* New --cabal-lib-version flag to select different Cabal lib versions
	* Support for HTTP proxies
	* Improved cabal list output
	* Build other non-dependent packages even when some fail
	* Report a summary of all build failures at the end
	* Partial support for hugs
	* Partial implementation of build reporting and logging
	* More consistent logging and verbosity
	* Significant internal code restructuring

0.4 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> Oct 2007
	* Renamed executable from 'cabal-install' to 'cabal'
	* Partial Windows compatability
	* Do per-user installs by default
	* cabal install now installs the package in the current directory
	* Allow multiple remote servers
	* Use zlib lib and internal tar code and rather than external tar
	* Reorganised configuration files
	* Significant code restructuring
	* Cope with packages with conditional dependencies

0.3 and older versions by Lemmih, Paolo Martini and others 2006-2007
	* Switch from smart-server, dumb-client model to the reverse
	* New .tar.gz based index format
	* New remote and local package archive format