Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello Divya,

I would like to only reply to your last point:

Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 02:50:43PM +0000 schrieb Divya:
> Regarding copyright assignment, I've already started the paperwork by emailing
> the form to assign@gnu.org. I did it through Emacs, but I believe I don't need
> to do it again? Some guidance for that would also be helpful.

No need to assign copyright for work on Guix, we keep the individual
contributors.

But I may as well comment on the other ones and have myself corrected by more
knowlegeable people from the corresponding teams.

> I've been using Guix for the last few months. As a Haskell programmer, I
> realized the latest stable that's available in the guix package repository is
> 9.2.8 which is _really_ old, considering that the current stable releases are
> at least older than 9.6.x.
> 
> I'd like to contribute to this if I can, since I myself would like to have the
> latest GHC for my uses.  So, how can I get the latest versions available? Do I
> need to add every release, or can I just add the most latest?
> 
> Also, is the process of adding a GHC release, or any Haskell package any
> different from the typical procedure to add a package? I'd like some
> introductory guidance/resources to learn that.

There should not be a difference with packages for other languages.
As far as I know, however, ghc is annoying to bootstrap, and we need at
least the latest x.y.z version to continue to x.(y+2).

> The same is true for rustc, the latest stable release is not updated. I'd like
> to help with that, if possible.

For rust, there is a special branch rust-team, where the work is coordinated.

Andreas