[Nix-dev] Switch to GHC 7.10.1 is imminent

Thomas Hunger tehunger at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 21:08:33 CEST 2015


+1 as well. I repeatedly ran into the issue where GHC package hashes
changed which IIUC is fixed in 7.10. Can't wait to start testing.

On 18 April 2015 at 19:11, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> wrote:

> >>>>> Aycan iRiCAN <iricanaycan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am -1 on this. Since some of the packages which I depend doesn't
> compile
> > with ghc 7.10 yet, they need upstream fixes (hans, http-streams,
> > rank1dynamic, jmacro and a few more). Could you please suspend the merge
> for
> > one more week? OTOH, I can still use haskell-ng.packages.ghc784 if nobody
> > supports my idea.
>
> Since 'master' is the branch for development, I'm +1 on this even though it
> will be disruptive for a while, because it's not going into any release
> channels.  I realize some of us actually use 'master' as our distribution
> channel, but the Nix project shouldn't be impeded by that use.
>
> John
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