Hi Joe, Joe Hillenbrand <joehil...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not a guix expert yet, so I looked at updating GHC and I got way > out of my depth real fast. > > I just wanted to say thanks. You are very welcome. >> Some of you may recall that I started work on updating all of our >> Haskell packages to their LTS 12 versions, and making sure they all >> build with GHC 8.4.3. > > Is this lts-12.10? Very good question! I meant to mention this, in fact. I froze everything at 12.8, so that I wouldn’t have to chase a moving target. Once everything is merged, we can keep track of the latest LTS 12 updates like we normally do with the importer. > ghc-8.6.1 was release a couple weeks ago, but I assume it will be added > after lts-13.0 comes out. Hopefully! We did skip GHC 8.2.2, so it’s hard to say. >> There are 21 failing packages. > > corrode[1] should probably be removed. It hasn't been touched in over a > year and a half and has been surpassed by c2rust[2]. I'm also pretty sure > nobody except the author ever really used it as it had a lot of bugs and > couldn't convert much C code. That’s good to know. Thanks for mentioning this. > [1] https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode > [2] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust -- Tim
