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Re: ghc 8


From: ng0
Subject: Re: ghc 8
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 23:16:24 +0000

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> should we package ghc 8 in core-updates? It was released in May:
>>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/ghc-8.0.1-released
>>
>> Probably a good idea.  :-)
>>
>> This can be done in ‘master’, or, if we change to default GHC, to a
>> dedicated ‘ghc-update’ branch.
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> Should this replace current ghc? I don't know how much of our current
> (gnu packages haskell) would break.
> For example we have this[0] bug for a current package[1] I am working
> on.
>
> Solution A would be to go multiversion, keep ghc7 around for all
> packages which do not support ghc8 yet.
> Solution B is just update the version and see what breaks on hydra build
> of all of haskell.
>
> I'll start this with solution B in a master-ghc8 branch to just take a
> look at ghc8 build and see if something fails.
>
> It's contraproductive to my haskell work, but I can't figure out at the
> moment why darcs fails in the middle of the build.
>
> [0]: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2505
> [1]: https://gitlab.com/packaging-guix/guix-darcs (mirror)
> -- 
> ng0
> For non-prism friendly talk find me on http://www.psyced.org
>

I was told haskell users expect to use the latest version always.

https://gitlab.com/packaging-guix/guix-haskell8/commit/24262239da96eeabb0840c178ac6c80792e405c5
this is what I have now, still needs to be debugged.
-- 
ng0
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