Version History

1.1 (October 27, 2020)

• New Shell module for building shell-like interfaces.

• New completion helper function completionFromList.

• Update dependencies to their latest versions

• Minor updates:

  • 1.1.0.1 (October 27, 2020): Limit optparse-applicative to 0.16.x
  • 1.1.1 (June 2, 2021): Build with GHC 9.0.1

1.0 (July 27, 2020)

This version is the result of a major refactoring of the code in order to produce an MTL-compatible library.

• New MTL-style class: MonadByline

• Proper monad transformer: BylineT

• Most of the library is under a single import: Byline

• Added a ToStylizedText class to enable using custom types with functions like menu.

• New Byline.Exit.die function to exit the current process with a stylized error message. Thanks to the ToStylizedText class it's easy to exit with custom error types.

• The Report type and associated functions were superfluous and therefore removed. (Consider using the new die and warn functions in Byline.Exit.)

• Menus now use NonEmpty to represent items and therefore the menu Choice type has been simplified, removing the NoItems constructor.

• Fixed a bug where Stylized Text was not rendered when using one of the ask* functions (#1).

• Proper encoding of escape sequences so Haskeline doesn't print garbage on Windows.

• Added support for RGB terminals

• Added an implementation of 'MonadByline' that uses simulated user input to test your Byline code.

0.4.0.0 (March 17, 2020)

• The askUntil function is now polymorphic in its return type. This allows the confirmation function to change the return type.

• Removed Data.Monoid backwards compatibility for older GHCs.

• Update dependency bounds

0.3.2.1 (April 15, 2019)

• Update dependency bounds

• Builds on NixOS 18.09, 19.03, and unstable

0.3.2.0 (October 09, 2018)

• Update dependency bounds

0.3.1.0 (March 20, 2018)

• Update dependency bounds

• Deal with the Semigroup Monoid Proposal

0.3.0.0 (December 1, 2017)

• New style modifier: swapFgBg (Thanks to Sam Tay)

• Byline is now an instance of MonadTrans (Thanks to Sam Tay)

0.2.4.0 (March 19, 2017)

• Update dependency bounds

• Add Travis CI build status for supported versions of GHC

0.2.3.0 (November 1, 2016)

• Increase upper bound on transformers package to 0.5 (Thanks to slycelote).

0.2.2.0 (June 9, 2016)

• Build under LTS-5.15

0.2.1.0 (November 5, 2014)

• Updated dependencies

0.2.0.0 (May 22, 2015)

• Added the NoItems constructor for Choice to deal with menus that are asked to display an empty list.

• Changes to build with GHC 7.8.4. and 7.10.1

0.1.0.0 (May 19, 2015)

• Initial release.