v0.6.11

[ManasJayanth]

Changelog

• Feature: Support for Windows developer mode. If you're are logged
  into their developer accounts, esy will no longer ask for a shell
  with elevated privileges.

  This also makes launchin VSCode instances in admin mode unnecessary

  PR Windows without admin #1292 by @EduardoRFS

• Docker images: A new Centos docker image has been
  added. (unreleased)

  PR added CentOS Docker Image #1271 by @rohitkg98

• Bugfix: Resolves circular dependencies by dropping opam post
  variable.

  PR Disable opam {post} variable #1319 by @phated

• Feature: Adds support for opam's extra-sources field.

  PR Add support for extra sources #1318 by @melwyn95

• Bugfix: Fixes installation and usage crashes on Windows machines
  where usernames have spaces.

  PR Unix.open process args #1332 by @Et7f3

• Bugfix: esy build waits when a lock has been acquired - this
  allows multiple esy processes to be run together without crashing

  PR esy-build-package: acquire blocking lock on build environment #1334 by @melwyn95

• Bugfix: Fixes require() in js scripts when inside $cur__target

  PR fix node require inside of _esy #1336 by @EduardoRFS

https://github.com/esy/esy/blob/f1010ca29ef5c8cf72f465d23b8e27153adfc837/CHANGELOG.md#0611--latest

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This discussion was created from the release v0.6.11.

Thank you, everyone, for participating in esy's development.

[Et7f3]

Can this upgrade include upgrade of esy-bash also ? 3.20 contains fix for user with space in their name.

[Et7f3]

This line seem to be outdated

esy/.ci/release-postinstall.js

Line 166 in 5246132

cp.execSync(`npm install esy-bash@0.3.19 --prefix "${__dirname}"`);

[EduardoRFS]

Let's do this for 3.6.12, it's okay to have frequent releases of improvements, can you open a PR so that we can run the slowtests on it?

[Et7f3]

#1340 passed for all expect Mac OS (problem at checkout)

[Et7f3]

We can not uninstall it:

C:\Users\Et7f3>npm i -g esy@next
C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm\esy -> C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\esy\bin\esy

> esy@0.6.11-next postinstall C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\esy
> node -e "process.env['OCAML_VERSION'] = process.platform == 'linux' ? '4.12.0-musl.static.flambda': '4.12.0'; process.env['OCAML_PKG_NAME'] = 'ocaml'; require('./postinstall.js')"

Installing native compiler toolchain for Windows...
Native compiler toolchain installed successfully.
importing: esy-3dd856eb
Done!
+ esy@0.6.11-next
added 1 package in 92.844s

C:\Users\Et7f3>esy --version
0.6.11

C:\Users\Et7f3>npm uninstall -g esy
npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! path C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm\esy.ps1
npm ERR! Refusing to delete C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm\esy.ps1: node_modules/esy/bin/esy symlink target is not controlled by npm C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\esy
npm ERR! File exists: C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm\esy.ps1
npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm
npm ERR! with --force to overwrite files recklessly.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Et7f3\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-08-03T18_06_38_339Z-debug.log

2021-08-03T18_06_38_339Z-debug.log

[Et7f3]

Can't uninstall with 4.10 so might be an old regression.