Hi,

What does it correspond to in git? Is it the cabal-install-1.18 branch,
or master, or something else?

Roman

* Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> [2013-08-26 15:12:22-0230]

> Hi all,
>
> We're close to a new release of Cabal/cabal-install and I'd appreciate some
> help in testing the new release. To install the release candidate, simply
> run:
>
> cabal install http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.18.0.tar.gz
> http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.18.0.tar.gz
>
> Please try on different OSes if you have several available. Report bugs at
>
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues
>

> *Things to try*

>
> This is not a complete list of new features (and bugs fixed)!
>

> *Sandboxing*

>
> Sandboxes help prevent "dependency hell" by having each project you're
> working on use a separate package database to install its dependencies in.
> Try it out on one of your projects like so:
>
> cd my-pkg
> cabal sandbox init  # only once
> cabal install --only-dependencies
> cabal configure
> cabal build
>

> *GHCi support*

>
> The new cabal repl commands lets you load up your library inside GHCi
> without lots of command line fiddling. Just run
>
> cabal repl
>
> instead of cabal build and play around without your library.
>

> *Known issues to be fixed before release*
>
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1439
>
> Cheers,
> Johan

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