[Nix-dev] Switch to GHC 7.10.1 is imminent

John Wiegley johnw at newartisans.com
Sat Apr 18 20:11:37 CEST 2015


>>>>> Aycan iRiCAN <iricanaycan at gmail.com> writes:

> I am -1 on this. Since some of the packages which I depend doesn't compile
> with ghc 7.10 yet, they need upstream fixes (hans, http-streams,
> rank1dynamic, jmacro and a few more). Could you please suspend the merge for
> one more week? OTOH, I can still use haskell-ng.packages.ghc784 if nobody
> supports my idea.

Since 'master' is the branch for development, I'm +1 on this even though it
will be disruptive for a while, because it's not going into any release
channels.  I realize some of us actually use 'master' as our distribution
channel, but the Nix project shouldn't be impeded by that use.

John


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