cabal-clean: Remove outdated cabal build artefacts from `dist-newstyle`.

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Simple command line tool to remove cabal build artefacts from `dist-newstyle/build` that are superseded by newer versions of the built package or the Haskell compiler.


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Versions 0.1.20210815, 0.1.20210924, 0.1.20220814, 0.1.20220814, 0.2.20220819, 0.2.20230609
Change log CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies base (>=4.9 && <5), containers (>=0.5.8), directory, filepath, mtl, optparse-applicative, pretty-terminal, process, split, string-qq [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Andreas Abel, 2021
Author Andreas Abel
Maintainer Andreas Abel <andreas.abel@cse.gu.se>
Category Development
Home page https://github.com/andreasabel/cabal-clean
Bug tracker https://github.com/andreasabel/cabal-clean/issues
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/andreasabel/cabal-clean.git
Uploaded by AndreasAbel at 2022-08-14T13:25:02Z

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Hackage version cabal-clean on Stackage Nightly Stackage LTS version Cabal build

cabal-clean : Remove superseded artefacts of cabal v2-build

Removes compilation artefacts in dist-newstyle/build from older versions of the package or superseded minor versions of GHC.

For the impatient

Installation

cabal install cabal-clean

Run

cd $MY_PROJECT
cabal-clean

This lists the build artifacts under dist-newstyle/build.

---	191M	dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-7.10.3/$MY_PROJECT-2.9.2
---	 72M	dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.4/$MY_PROJECT-2.9.2
---	162M	dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-9.0.1/$MY_PROJECT-2.9.2
+++	135M	dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-7.10.3/$MY_PROJECT-2.9.3
---	 70M	dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.4/$MY_PROJECT-2.9.3
+++	145M	dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.10.5/$MY_PROJECT-2.9.3
+++	159M	dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-osx/ghc-9.0.1/$MY_PROJECT-2.9.3

The superseded ones, printed in red and prefixed by dashes (---), can then be removed by:

cabal-clean --delete

Rationale

v2-cabal (the nix-based cabal) maintains a directory structure for local builds of the form dist-newstyle/build/$ARCH/$HC/$PACKAGE-$VERSION (plus other stuff that does not take up much disk space). During active development with several $HC versions and $VERSION bumps for the $PACKAGE, lots of out-dated build artefacts accumulate over time.

A simple way to clean up is removing the whole dist-newstyle folder, but one might want to keep the build artefacts of the most recent package $VERSIONs of the most recent versions of the Haskell compiler ($HC).

Philosophy

Functionality

Examples

List build artifacts of current project, marking superseded ones that can be deleted:

cabal-clean

Actually delete superseded builds:

cabal-clean --delete

Delete superseded builds without changing to directory:

cabal-clean --delete path/to/my/project/dist-newstyle

Delete superseded builds in many projects:

find . -name "dist-newstyle" -exec cabal-clean --delete {} \;

Get help:

cabal-clean --help

cabal v2-clean (as of 2021-08-16)