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

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

This issue tracks the status of packages building with 7.10 for stackage, a
lot are still failing

https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/378



On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Raahul Kumar <raahul.kumar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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