[Nix-dev] Use GHC 7.10.1 as default Haskell compiler in nixpkgs

[Eric Seidel]

I think upgrading makes sense, but given the need to rebuild all haskell
packages, we ought to push the upgrade to staging first.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015, at 09:50, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> On 03/27/2015 04:21 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
> > IMO (and this is not limited to Haskell) we should either always use
> > the latest or, if the latest tends to provide a significantly
> > different experience than the previous version, not have a default at
> > all and require users to request a specific version. We do this for
> > mysql in NixOS for example.
> > 
> >> On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
> >> <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> GHC 7.10.1 was officially released this morning. I wonder what the 
> >> stance is to switching over to it as a default. If I remember
> >> correctly, we switched do 7.8.x very quickly when that came out.
> >> 
> >> -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ 
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> > 
> 
> Right, but at the same time we want binary caches. By ‘default’ I mean
> mostly ‘the one that Hydra builds all the Haskell packages with’. I have
> no doubt that we'd do this for multiple versions if the resources
> allowed but Hydra is bogged down as it is.
> 
> -- 
> Mateusz K.
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