>For the first time ever, we're able to have all the 3rd party code >tested and ready to go
By "all the third party code" do you mean everything on http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html ? My two packages, happs-tutorial and external-sort, are not represented in your report, and many others also not. I'd be curious to know if my stuff is ghc6.10 compatible. Thomas. 2008/10/14 Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey all. > > The GHC 6.10 RCs are out, and we're preparing the release of GHC proper. > To help manage the transistion to GHC 6.10 it is now possible to > actually build all the 3rd party Haskell packages, and publish their > results wrt. the release candidate. > > For the first time ever, we're able to have all the 3rd party code > tested and ready to go *prior* to the release of the new compiler and > base libraries. > > Using GHC 6.10 RC from today, Cabal 1.6 and cabal-install 1.16, of 682 > libraries and apps tried in total, > > 1 UnpackFailed > 2 DownloadFailed > 2 InstallFailed > 16 ConfigureFailed > 68 DependencyFailed > 122 BuildFailed > 469 InstallOk > > Since yesterday, > > * dependency failures have reduced by 5 > * build failures have reduced by 10 > * total successfully installed packages are **up by 14** > > These new packages now all build ok with the GHC 6.10 release candidate, > > Graphalyze-0.4 > alsa-midi > calc > glome-hs > harpy > heap > hmp3 > ircbouncer > mohws > panda > pandoc > roguestar-engine > type-level > typeof > unicode-prelude > urlcheck > > Good work everyone! > > Some packages are still not ready though, if you maintain one of the following > packages, and are able to fix it before GHC 6.10 is released, your users will > be happy. > > The most common issues for these differences are, > > * Changes to Arrow class definition > * Changes to types of Map and Set functions > * Cabal changes > * Changes to ghc-api > * Changes to when 'forall' is parsed (add Rank2Types) > * GHC.Prim was moved, > * Changes to -fvia-C and headers > * GADT changes, > * pragma warnings tightened > * Integer constructors have moved > * New warnings and used -Werror > > The following packages are still producing different results than with ghc > 6.8.2. Package maintainers are invited to look at them. > > I've marked the easy ones. > > ArrayRef-0.1.2 > Easy: duplicate type signatures > CLASE-2008.9.23.2 > Hard: GADT changes > EdisonCore-1.2.1.2 > Easy: Monadic Map > HPDF-1.4 > Easy: Monadic Map > HaLeX-1.1 > Easy: Name clash with permutations > Hashell-0.15 > ? : GHC API > Hipmunk-0.2 > Easy: Monadic Map > MemoTrie-0.0 > Easy: 'forall' parsing > NewBinary-0.1.1 > Easy: Integer constructors moved > PArrows-0.1 > Easy: GHC.Prim moved (use GHC.Exts) > TypeCompose-0.5 > Easy: Arrow class changes > YamlReference-0.9.2 > Hard. Unknown > Yampa-0.9.2.2 > Arrow class changes > arrows-0.4 > Arrow class changes > bytestring-show-0.2 > Easy: Integer constructors moved > cabal-setup-1.2.1 > Hard: Cabal changes > chp-1.1.0 > Easy: Arrow class changes > cmath-0.3 > Hard: -fvia-C changes > fixpoint-0.1 > Easy: Uses -Werror unnecessarily > hasim-0.1 > Hard: GADT changes > hask-home-2007.12.6 > Easy: Cabal changes > hetris-0.2 > Easy: header macros/-fvia-C > hexpat-0.2 > Easy: 'forall' parsing in RULES > hinstaller-2008.2.16 > Easy: Cabal changes > hint-0.2.4.1 > Hard? GHC API > hslackbuilder-0.0.1 > Easy: Cabal changes > hxt-8.1.0 > Easy: Arrow class change > iException-0.0.1 > ? Exception changes > libGenI-0.16.1 > Easy: Monadic Map changes > mage-1.1.0 > Hard: -fvia-C changes > numeric-prelude-0.0.4 > Easy: Lanuage pragma > plugins-1.3 > Easy: Cabal changes > quantum-arrow-0.0.4 > Easy: Arrow class changes > regex-tdfa-0.94 > Easy: Map changes > streamproc-1.1 > Easy: Arrow class changes > stringtable-atom-0.0.4 > Easy: Monadic Map > typalyze-0.1.1 > ? GHC API > xmonad-utils-0.1 > ? GHC API > yhccore-0.9 > ? Pragma parsing > > Build reports for everything, produced today, are here, > > http://galois.com/~dons/tmp/build-logs-2008-10-13/ > > How to address these, as library maintainers, is addressed here, > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Upgrading_packages > > If you'd like to try your own build of all of hackage, grab a package > list (such as this one), > > http://www.galois.com/~dons/tmp/pkgs-6.10 > > Install a GHC 6.10 release candidate, upgrade to Cabal 1.6 (on hackage), > and cabal-install 0.6 (on hackage), and then simply, > > cabal install -v -O0 $(cat pkgs-6.10) --build-reports > > This will construct a clever plan to install all the packages in the > right order, and write logs to ~/.cabal/logs and a full structured build > report into ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.*/build-report.log > > I'll start mailing maintainers personally tomorrow. > > -- Don > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
