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

[Michael Alan Dorman]

My understanding is that there may be a number of pkgs that fail to
build, for admittedly minor reasons. This is from the Stackage
maintainer, who presumably has a high level perspective on this.

Mike


On Fri, Mar 27, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Domen Kožar wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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:
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> >>
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> >> 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.
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>
>>
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>>
> Mateusz K.
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