[Nix-dev] Stackage Support Will Be Discontinued

[Teo Klestrup Röijezon]

Fair enough, that seems like a reasonable solution.

On 11 June 2016 at 18:31, Benno Fünfstück <benno.fuenfstueck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Teo Klestrup Röijezon <teo at nullable.se> schrieb am Mi., 8. Juni 2016 um
> 21:58 Uhr:
>
>> So there will no longer be a way to pin Haskell dependencies? That's a
>> bit annoying. I can understand the desire to keep security-critical
>> packages like OpenSSL and user-facing tools like git-annex up to date, but
>> at the same time there are many non-critical dependencies that I wouldn't
>> want to go back and patch my one-off deployments for updates of.
>>
>> The old way is/was certainly not perfect, but at least it provided a
>> mostly-stable target that I could pretty much forget about after deployment.
>>
>
> There should be still a way to do this. I don't think stackage supports
> needs to be removed from `hackage2nix` or `cabal2nix`, so you can still
> simply generate your own `hackage-packages.nix` and include that with your
> project to pin the hackage snapshot.
>
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