[Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

[Oliver Charles]

I should point out that I've since got everything with working with GHC
7.8, and we've in fact now switched work's compiler to be 7.8.


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:20 PM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> wrote:

> >>>>> Oliver Charles <ollie> writes:
>
> > At work, we still can't build with GHC 7.8.2 because various dependencies
> > are still broken. However, that's not really the end of the world - I can
> > just change our expressions to use haskellPackages_ghc763 rather than
> > haskellPackages.
>
> Just wanted to note that I've been building the Haskell packages I use with
> the following compilers daily (they often all rebuild after nixpkgs
> updates,
> since I use -u --leq):
>
>     GHC 7.4.2
>     GHC 7.6.3
>     GHC 7.6.3-profiling
>     GHC 7.8.2
>     GHC 7.8.2-profiling
>
> So far I've the following not work with 7.8.2 (though things could have
> changed):
>
>     Agda
>     cabal2nix
>     hasktags
>     lambdabot
>     threadscope
>
> The way I work around this is to simply build those specific tools using
> 7.6.3, until they are updated to support 7.8.2.
>
> John
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