[Nix-dev] Plan for GHC 8.0.2

[Bas van Dijk]

Eelco recently added support for testing for build determinism to hydra:

  https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/8bb36e79bd9e1752c01499971cc511872c706956

Maybe you can use that. You can also test whole jobsets at once:

  https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/f6081668dc5e9974f7e6fae7e74ea27dc1a5b3e7

On 2 January 2017 at 21:17, Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trinkle at gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, I've done some testing - built a reasonably large slew of things
> - but I haven't extensively tested the reproducibility itself.  If anyone
> has suggestions on how to approach that, I'll be happy to do some of that.
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trinkle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I submitted a pull request here to enable parallel builds for ghc > 8.0.1.
>> Let me know what you think!  I've definitely been looking forward to this
>> for a long time.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Peter, that's good news. Thank you!
>>>
>>> On 2 January 2017 at 10:47, Peter Simons <simons at nospf.cryp.to> wrote:
>>> > Hi Bas,
>>> >
>>> >  > Peter, I was wondering what your plan is regarding GHC-8.0.2. Will
>>> >  > you add it to the release-16.09 branch [...]?
>>> >
>>> > Yes, I'll add it to the release branch. The 'haskellPackages' set will
>>> > continue to follow the LTS-7.x release, though, so it won't become the
>>> > default compiler.
>>> >
>>> > Best regards,
>>> > Peter
>>> >
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