On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 07:34, Tim Docker <t...@dockerz.net> wrote: > On 07/06/2011, at 8:48 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > >> Oh, sorry, missed the first line. Building against GHC snapshots isn't >> supported. > > Surely wanting to test against a ghc snapshot isn't that odd? How
The point of the Haskell Platform is to provide a tested, stable configuration. While testing against newer versions is in some sense good, it is fully expected to require tweaking. The HP *is* the box; change anything and you are outside the box and nothing is guaranteed. > do others go about testing their code with many hackage dependencies against > a new ghc? I would have expected that the first thing to do would be get the We don't, for the most part; ghc is a quickly moving target and usually has multiple type theory experiments going on in its code, and it's best to avoid new versions until they stabilize and any core dependents are updated. GHC announcements will often mention how usable the release is expected to be for us non-type theorists. Unless you're a ghc hacker, you shouldn't in general rush into a new ghc version. (This isn't Linux. The bleeding edge is for type theory, not geeks.) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
