The threaded runtime is required at least for hledger's pager output,
and probably for other things. It's controlled by the "threaded" build
flag for some historical reason. Now, that flag is marked as manual,
so that it can no longer be toggled by cabal. (Probably the build flag
should be dropped, that can be tried later.)
Related: Debian bug #1120833, causing an unusable hledger-1.50.2 package.
This makes both transaction screen and error screen below the
transaction screen update as we'd expect when using the E key, g key,
or --watch. No visible bugs known at the moment.
System.IO.hGetContents' was the latest paper cut; I could keep
supporting ghc 8.10.7, or at least 9.0-9.4, released 2021-2023;
but feck it. Debian Stable has 9.6 and this time can be better spent.
This requires hfsevents-0.1.8 which fixes some events being ignored on
mac (https://github.com/luite/hfsevents/pull/19), possibly making
hledger-ui --watch more reliable in that regard.
Previously our cabal files used cabal-version 1.12, and were in theory
buildable with any ancient version of cabal. Now at least cabal 2.2
(or a version of stack built with with similar Cabal version) is
required to build hledger.
Builds made with ghc 9.10+ and the 'debug' build flag, will show
(some kind of, partial) stack traces when the program ends with an
error. (And also will have ghc-debug support enabled.)
The stack traces will probably improve in due course.
When built with the ghcdebug flag and started with --debug=-1 (or -2
to pause at startup, or -3 to pause before exit), hledger can be
controlled by ghc-debug clients like ghc-debug-brick or a custom
ghc-debug query script.
Also, refactor version string code.
Introduced or bumped dependencies:
- brick-2.1.1
- vty-6.1
- vty-crossplatform-0.4.0.0
- vty-windows-0.2.0.1 conditionally on windows (current version of
vty-crossplatform has 0.2.0.0 as a lower bound, need to put a newer version explcitly;
once we get a newer vty-crossplatform, we will be able to drop this conditional)
- vty-unix (indirectly via vty-crossplatform)
