v1.2.0-rc1

Main new features

• New alr exec command.
• Custom command aliases.
• Build profiles.
• Monorepos.

See https://github.com/alire-project/alire/blob/master/doc/user-changes.md for details.

What's Changed

• Incremental building of dependencies by @mosteo in #832
• Fix missing action triggers, again by @mosteo in #835
• Refactoring: remove string subprograms from Alire.Utils/Alr.Utils and use AAA.Strings by @Fabien-Chouteau in #837
• Alire.Config: replace with CLIC.Config by @Fabien-Chouteau in #841
• Port to ada_toml for TOML 1.0 by @mosteo in #836
• Alr.Commands.Build: forward subcommand args to gprbuild by @Fabien-Chouteau in #850
• Revamped alr version output by @mosteo in #852
• Update CLIC dependency to avoid build failure on older GNAT versions by @Fabien-Chouteau in #872
• Enable and update self-build by @mosteo in #798
• Use Stopwatch for elapsed time image (#868) by @jquorning in #870
• Reorder switches for alr test subprocess in Default_Test by @jquorning in #871
• New command exec and support of aliases by @Fabien-Chouteau in #853
• Alire.Releases: fix dependencies in YAML output by @Fabien-Chouteau in #867
• Alr.Commands.Init: fix .gitignore for bin crates by @Fabien-Chouteau in #877
• Test case for bug #875 (virtual crate environment) by @mosteo in #878
• Don't err when unsetting a non-existing config key by @mosteo in #884
• Alire.Crate_Configuration: Generate Pure and Preelaborate Ada package by @Fabien-Chouteau in #894
• Build profiles and switches system by @Fabien-Chouteau in #895
• Build profiles and swtiches continued by @Fabien-Chouteau in #896
• Fix space typo in trace for unknown distribution by @jquorning in #901
• Replace invalid option --skip-compile with --skip-build in alr clean by @onox in #903
• Bugfix for nested empty tables in manifest by @mosteo in #906
• Fix identifier typo. by @pyjarrett in #908
• Fix spelling of alr by @bracke in #909
• Rename to GNAT_Suppress_Runtime_Check by @jquorning in #913
• Rename to Make_Switches_Map by @jquorning in #914
• Rename Classifiable interface by @jquorning in #916
• Fix several typos in comments by @jquorning in #915
• Fix several typos in trace and output by @jquorning in #912
• Bump clic to fix infinite loop on multichoice on macOS by @mosteo in #927
• Don't attempt to build a binary release by @mosteo in #928
• alr toolchain: fix gprbuild typo in help by @Chris660 in #929
• Refactor scattered platform code into Alire.Platforms.Current by @mosteo in #931
• New config option to disable community index by @mosteo in #933
• Log command line before parsing & execution by @mosteo in #938
• alr.py: ensure baseline git configuration in tests by @mosteo in #936
• Display pins in show/with commands by @mosteo in #940
• doc: Add an introduction and update getting-started.md by @Fabien-Chouteau in #899
• Support for publishing of crates in subdirectories of repositories by @mosteo in #939
• Emit all found executables by @jquorning in #946
• Remove pins from manifest during alr publish by @mosteo in #947
• Leftover comments from platform refactor by @mosteo in #950
• New property for detected host architecture by @mosteo in #932
• Alire.Properties.Build_Switches: Add support for Ada version switches by @Fabien-Chouteau in #953
• Alire.Environment: export <CRATE_NAME>_PREFIX for all crates of solution by @Fabien-Chouteau in #954
• Change default GPRbuild switches by @Fabien-Chouteau in #955
• Alr.Commands.Exec: -P switch to add project file on the command line by @Fabien-Chouteau in #956
• alire.toml: bump gnatcoll-slim commit to match git submodule by @Fabien-Chouteau in #959
• Alire.Environment: change _PREFIX to _ALIRE_PREFIX by @Fabien-Chouteau in #958
• Alire.Crate_Configuration: Add a Crate_Name constant for all configs by @Fabien-Chouteau in #957
• Silence git when not running in a tty by @mosteo in #963
• Remove git --progress flag (fixes #966) by @JeremyGrosser in #967
• Alire.Crate_Configuration: add built-in values for host OS, Arch and Distro by @Fabien-Chouteau in #961
• Remapping of ARM64 to AARCH64 by @mosteo in #968
• Update msys2 installer and allow user to set version by @Fabien-Chouteau in #970
• Alire.Manifest: Remove "Added by alr" comments by @Fabien-Chouteau in #977
• Use proper index versioning for backwards compatibility by @mosteo in #975
• Fix some rich output that eluded --no-color/--no-tty by @mosteo in #978
• Reject manifest keys with underscores by @mosteo in #980
• Alr.Commands.Init: Fix missing config src dir by @Fabien-Chouteau in #981
• Alire.Utils.Switches: Disable contracts for Development profile by @Fabien-Chouteau in #979
• Alr.Command: fix gnatcov built-in alias by @Fabien-Chouteau in #986
• Alire.Crate_Configuration: Fix pragma No_Elaboration_Code by @Fabien-Chouteau in #987
• New action subcommand by @mosteo in #983
• Refactor Alire.Features.Index to Alire.Index_On_Disk.Loading by @mosteo in #992
• Alire.Properties.Configurations: revert forced mixed case by @Fabien-Chouteau in #998
• Update getting-started.md by @Fabien-Chouteau in #1000
• Alr.Commands.Init: change default version for new crates to 0.1.0-dev by @Fabien-Chouteau in #1004
• Alr.Commands.Init: Create share folder for resources by @Fabien-Chouteau in #1003
• Implement load of individual crates from index by @mosteo in #1006
• Cache index detection and crate loading by @mosteo in #1008
• Alire.Index_On_Disk: Drop index cache after deletion by @mosteo in #1010
• Bump index version by @mosteo in #1009
• Show just the version with alr --version by @mosteo in #1013
• Bump msys installer in devel branch by @mosteo in #1017
• tests/crate_config/basic: fix arm64 expected host by @Fabien-Chouteau in #1015
• Load the index when dependencies are needed by @mosteo in #1019
• Properly detect domain in publishing assistant by @mosteo in #1020
• Don't try to detect external tools when they're from binary archives by @mosteo in #1018
• Create zipball with full sources for releases by @mosteo in #1023
• New alr get --dirname switch by @mosteo in #1014
• Fix retrieval of git root and prefix inside repo by @mosteo in #1024

New Contributors

• @bracke made their first contribution in #909
• @Chris660 made their first contribution in #929
• @JeremyGrosser made their first contribution in #967

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0-rc1