From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Hillenbrand Subject: Re: GHC 8.4.3 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:08:45 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87h8ichx2b.fsf@ngyro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5bfB-0003UY-68 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:09:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5bf9-0002Jr-Et for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:09:25 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-x532.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::532]:40753) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5bf9-0002JL-88 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:09:23 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-x532.google.com with SMTP id n31-v6so2628991pgm.7 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:09:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87h8ichx2b.fsf@ngyro.com> 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: samplet@ngyro.com Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org I'm not a guix expert yet, so I looked at updating GHC and I got way out of my depth real fast. I just wanted to say thanks. > Some of you may recall that I started work on updating all of our > Haskell packages to their LTS 12 versions, and making sure they all > build with GHC 8.4.3. Is this lts-12.10? ghc-8.6.1 was release a couple weeks ago, but I assume it will be added after lts-13.0 comes out. > There are 21 failing packages. corrode[1] should probably be removed. It hasn't been touched in over a year and a half and has been surpassed by c2rust[2]. I'm also pretty sure nobody except the author ever really used it as it had a lot of bugs and couldn't convert much C code. [1] https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode [2] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust