From: Divya Ranjan <divya@subvertising.org>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>
Cc: Saku Laesvuori <saku@laesvuori.fi>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:49:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v7xlqwvx.fsf@subvertising.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZxZ1ufkyEl2hD8D1@noor.fritz.box> (Lars-Dominik Braun's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:39:37 +0200")
Hello Lars!
Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> writes:
>> Not really, but this specific update (GHC 9.4 to 9.6) is quite tricky
>> because GHC changed their build system from a make to Hadrian. Hadrian
>> written in Haskell and depends on quite many packages, so we need to
>> build all those with an earlier GHC version to be able to build the
>> current GHC. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67921 for the current
>> situation with this. I am still quite busy with other things in life, so
>> feel free to pick those patches up.
>
> in addition, note that we’re importing packages matching our GHC version
> from Stackage where possible and not the latest and greatest from Hackage.
Is there a specific reason why we’re following the Stackage releases? Stackage is one step slower in getting the updates. The current Stackage Nightly is 9.8.2, while Hackage has 9.10.1. Is this due to some stability issues with Hackage?
Regards,
--
Divya Ranjan,
Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-21 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-21 14:50 Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers Divya
2024-10-21 14:57 ` Andreas Enge
2024-10-21 15:28 ` Divya Ranjan
2024-10-21 15:45 ` Andreas Enge
2024-10-21 15:53 ` Divya Ranjan
2024-10-22 8:43 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-10-22 9:29 ` Divya
2024-10-21 15:07 ` Saku Laesvuori
2024-10-21 15:39 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2024-10-21 15:49 ` Divya Ranjan [this message]
2024-10-22 14:32 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2024-10-22 14:50 ` Divya
2024-10-22 15:07 ` Jordan Moore
2024-10-21 15:44 ` Divya Ranjan
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