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

[Raahul Kumar]

Any idea why 1/3rd of all packages, 1551, are classified as newly failing?
What package/s is the problem? Is it due to the packages not having updated
as per the guidelines here?

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/7.10

Aloha,
RK.

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:

> Hi Mateusz,
>
>  > GHC 7.10.1 was officially released this morning. I wonder what the
>  > stance is to switching over to it as a default.
>
> I created pull request [1] to experiment with the new version. Test
> builds are running at [2]. [3] shows how 7.10.1 compares to 7.8.4 in
> terms of ability to compile the Hackage package set.
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/7037
> [2] http://hydra.cryp.to/jobset/nixpkgs/haskell-updates-ghc7101
> [3] http://hydra.cryp.to/eval/297962?compare=haskell-updates
>
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