On Mon, Aug 3, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Bryan Richter wrote:
> stack makes it pretty easy to upgrade dependencies now. I'm thinking
> it would be nice to do that once a month. The upsides are the usual
> ones: bug fixes and security fixes that should be non-breaking. The
> downsides are: potential breakage anyway, one big slow build once a
> month, and detritus left around in ~/.stack and .stack-work.
> 
> I think the upsides outweigh the downsides. There will also,
> eventually, be better tools for cleaning up the stack working
> directories. For now, if you're nearly out of space like I am, I think
> we can just manually delete the old directories, e.g.
> .stack-work/install/«arch»/lts-2.13 and
> ~/.stack/snapshots/«arch»/lts-2.13. Worst case scenario those
> directories are just regenerated with another big build. :)
> 
> So, does anyone have any concerns if I start upgrading dependencies by
> pushing changes to stack.yaml?
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I'm all for it.  The downsides seem pretty minor compared to slowly
drifting more and more out of date.
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