[Nix-dev] Plan for GHC 8.0.2

[Ryan Trinkle]

Ah, well this is a bit tricky: GHC 8.0.2's build determinism isn't
bit-for-bit, just ABI determinism.  I think build-repeat would still fail.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eelco recently added support for testing for build determinism to hydra:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/8bb36e79bd9e1752c01499971cc511
> 872c706956
>
> Maybe you can use that. You can also test whole jobsets at once:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/f6081668dc5e9974f7e6fae7e74ea2
> 7dc1a5b3e7
>
> 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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