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

[Domen Kožar]

FTR:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/64a4fab42bccc18b1b0bd8521fa5c03a464c1e1a

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:

> 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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