Enhancement: add proxy names redirection for ghcup executable

[evan0greenup]

ghcup to Haskell is similar to rustup to Rust.

Have a look on https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/concepts/proxies.html, It would nice to bring this feature in ghcup.

When create a symlink to ghcup executable with a different name for example ghc or stack or cabal, it will automatically redirect the command and arguments to its default related tools.

This would make it much easier for Linux distro maintainer to use ghcup replace all the traditional haskell related toolchain.

[hasufell]

This is rather easy with e.g. ghcup run --ghc recommended -- ghc "$@".

However, there's a complication on windows:

1. symlinks are not enabled on all systems
2. windows doesn't seem to have a proper exec function that stops the current process and lets the child process take fully over (at least not in process package)? That means it's subtly different from invoking ghc directly

[evan0greenup]

@hasufell ,

The problem of why not using ghcup run --ghc recommended -- ghc "$@" as shell script is:

If the shell script which is installed as /usr/bin/ghc. Then it will fall into infinite shell recursion.

Because /usr/bin is also a path where ghcup search paths.

[hasufell]

I don't see why that would be the case. The new ghc binary location is prepended to PATH and the shell picks the first occurence.

[hasufell]

[hasufell@localhost:~]
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
[hasufell@localhost:~]
$ cat /usr/bin/ghc
#!/bin/sh

$HOME/.ghcup/bin/ghcup run --ghc recommended -- ghc "$@"

[hasufell@localhost:~]
$ which ghc
/usr/bin/ghc
[hasufell@localhost:~]
$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 9.4.8

[evan0greenup]

@hasufell , as a packager, I want to make ghcup a system package.

Modifying user's .bashrc or .bash_profile is definitely not a good practice.

Want to just add new files in system-level instead of modifying any file or do options on user home directory.

Because for multiple users system, when new user added, the effect do against old user will not apply to new user.

Add name proxies for ghcup executable will make thing a lot easier. Hope you can understand.

[hasufell]

@evan0greenup you can already do what you want with shell wrappers. See ghcup run --help.

Note that you'll have to make a choice whether those shell wrappers should install the tool when it's missing, which can affect the first invocation and trigger a metadata download (see ghcup run --install).

I'd keep it off and print more verbose instructions.