Wow, very exciting! Hopefully we can get GHCJS ready as a first-class citizen by then.
Cheers! -Charles On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > > How much work remains before we can flip the switch? > > the 'haskell-ng' branch in [1] is pretty stable by now. According to [2], > we > can build approximately 50% of Hackage. There's more work to be done in > cabal2nix, improving the generated package list to get that percentage up > some more, but IMHO the major challenges have been solved. Anyone who wants > to look at the code, can check out [3]. > > Also, everyone is welcome to try out the new Haskell environment: get the > 'haskell-ng' branch, add the attribute > > provideOldHaskellAttributeNames = true; > > to your ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix file, and then your normal configuration > should work just like it did before -- unless, if your configuration was > based on the ghc-wrapper. Then you'll have to convert to ghcWithPackages, > because the wrapper is gone. > > It will be 2-3 more weeks until I'll open a PR, asking for review before > merging to 'master'. > > Best regards, > Peter > > > [1] https://github.com/peti/nixpkgs > [2] http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/haskell-updates > [3] > https://github.com/peti/nixpkgs/blob/haskell-ng/pkgs/development/haskell-modules > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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