Changelog of @hackage/ideas 1.5

Changelog ideas-1.4 => ideas.1.5

• upgrade to ghc-7.10
• reintroducing dependency on standard cgi library
• adding missing instances for Term and ShowString
• new option for JSON mode: exercise terms can be encoded in JSON
• switched to QuickCheck's random number generator QCGen
• requests can fix the random seed
• added Term to service types, encoders and decoders
• JSON-Int can be used for decoded environments
• new implementation for interleave and atomic prefix combinators (more lazy)
• bug fix: "no prefix" now handled by json decoder

Changelog ideas-1.3.1 => ideas.1.4

• refactoring of strategies

  • strategies are now represented cyclic trees (that preserve fixpoints)
  • new strategy combinators can be defined outside the framework
  • simpler interfaces: no more Builder, Step, and Core datatypes
  • nice speed-up for constructing and running strategies

• support for new database schema (v2) with more columns

  • request can have an optional 'logging' attribute (false, v1, v2)
  • command-line flag for seeing information that is logged
  • userid, sessionid, and taskid are stored in a state

• changing license to Apache License version 2.0 (was: GPL)

• renaming strategy combinators (eg ..) to solve clash with Applicative.<>

• adding SyntaxError constructor to Diagnose datatype

• added read instance for Difficulty

• changed newline and tab escaping in JSON

• re-implemented atomic combinator

• introduced inits combinator (initial prefixes) and atomic prefix (!~>)

• introduced somewhereWhen traversal combinator

• added cabal flag to resolve dependency on network >= 2.6

• added cabal flag to enable support for logging