From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] gnu: Add GHC 8.0.1. Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 19:08:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8e4gr1u.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55715) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvovS-0006k6-UJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:08:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvovP-0002E1-P5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:08:42 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:21460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvovP-0002Dg-GV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:08:39 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Federico Beffa writes: > This is the newest GHC version. I'm adding it as opposed to updating > the version of the current compiler because it is likely to break some > of the 240+ libraries that we have and currently I can't commit to fix > those. I think this is the right approach. I have a branch in which I’m trying to upgrade all of our libraries and it’s not straight-forward. > There is a project https://www.stackage.org/ curating an LTS set of > libraries playing well together and with a specific compiler version. > It would probably make sense to sync with their work. They do use YAML > configuration files. Is there somewhere a YAML library for Guile that > we could use? Good idea! This would make it easier to keep our large set of Haskell libraries up to date and working, an improvement over what we have today. ~~ Ricardo