From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: ghc 8 Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 23:16:24 +0000 Message-ID: <87oa42szsn.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> References: <87y437u61m.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87a8fni9xp.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn02zl29.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> 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]:40445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bh37t-0001OA-DM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:16:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bh37s-0005RF-7l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:16:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bn02zl29.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ng0 writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> ng0 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 For non-prism friendly talk find me on http://www.psyced.org