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* heads-up: Haskell updates
@ 2018-02-13 12:48 Ricardo Wurmus
  2018-02-14 14:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
  2018-02-14 18:46 ` Mark H Weaver
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 55+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2018-02-13 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hi Guix,

I’ve just pushed a very large number of updates to Haskell packages and
switched to GHC 8 as the default.

I have built almost all of these updated packages and some packages that
depend on them, including r-rmarkdown, hisat, darcs, xmonad, and r-rcas.

One notable exception is idris — I could not make it build at all.
Neither the current version, nor any of the following versions up to
1.2.0.  Help in this area is appreciated.

Some notes:

* updating Haskell packages automatically is dangerous as not all
  packages work well together.  When updating I often had to take a few
  steps back to reduce the version number.  On Hackage I picked the LTS
  version where available.

* this is based on my previous work from October 2016.  Only few
  packages had been updated since then, so most of my changes still
  applied.  When it wasn’t necessary I didn’t bother updating my
  updates.  This means that a second pass could be useful to update
  packages that are below their LTS versions.

  In general I think we really need someone who feels responsible for
  *all* the Haskell packages.  It’s not okay to keep most of them at old
  versions for over a year.

* many problems are caused by the fact that GHC includes a bunch of
  packages that really shouldn’t be overridden by packages.  Examples
  are ghc-directory, ghc-binary, ghc-bytestring, etc.  Since we still
  have packages where these inputs are used, there can be conflicts down
  the line, which are hard to fix.

* I liberally added the “--allow-newer” configure flag to packages that
  have strict version constraints.  In most cases that was to allow for
  a later version of QuickCheck.

* If you find that anything is broken now that worked before, please
  coordinate updates and fixes on guix-devel@gnu.org.

I hope this big blob of changes won’t inconvenience you too much.

--
Ricardo

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2018-02-13 12:48 heads-up: Haskell updates Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-14 14:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-14 16:46   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-14 18:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-14 19:19   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-14 19:39     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-14 19:44       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-14 21:23       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-14 21:39         ` Andreas Enge
2018-02-14 22:42           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-14 22:47       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-15  8:41         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-15  9:17           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-15 10:38             ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-15 14:02             ` Timothy Sample
2018-02-15 15:05               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 12:50               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 13:04                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 15:18                   ` Andreas Enge
2018-02-17 16:11                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 20:00                       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-17 20:24                         ` core-updates, last call? Leo Famulari
2018-02-17 23:16                           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-18 21:45                             ` Pjotr Prins
2018-02-18 22:44                               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-18 20:42                       ` heads-up: Haskell updates Chris Marusich
2018-02-15 10:29           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-15 11:04           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-15 11:08             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-15 11:12             ` Andreas Enge
2018-02-15 15:44             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-15 17:03               ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-15 17:46                 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-15 18:12                 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-16 15:26                 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-16 16:31                   ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-16 17:43                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-16 18:12                       ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-16 18:29                         ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-16 22:14                           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-16 18:15                       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-17  0:33                         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 12:11                       ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-02-17 12:18                         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 12:55                           ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-02-17 13:00                             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 13:38                               ` Timothy Sample
2018-02-17 14:42                                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 16:04                                   ` Timothy Sample
2018-02-17 23:22                                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-17 15:51                               ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-02-17 19:48               ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-17 19:54             ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-17 21:51               ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-17 22:32                 ` Timothy Sample

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