My understanding is that there may be a number of pkgs that fail to build, for admittedly minor reasons. This is from the Stackage maintainer, who presumably has a high level perspective on this.
Mike On Fri, Mar 27, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Domen Kožar wrote: > FTR: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/64a4fab42bccc18b1b0bd8521fa5c03a464c1e1a > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@seidel.io> wrote: >> I think upgrading makes sense, but given the need to rebuild all >> haskell >> packages, we ought to push the upgrade to staging first. >> >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015, at 09:50, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: >> > On 03/27/2015 04:21 PM, Shea Levy wrote: >> > > IMO (and this is not limited to Haskell) we should either always use >> > > the latest or, if the latest tends to provide a significantly >> > > different experience than the previous version, not have a > > default at >> > > all and require users to request a specific version. We do this for >> > > mysql in NixOS for example. >> > > >> > >> On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk >> > >> <fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> Hi, >> > >> >> > >> GHC 7.10.1 was officially released this morning. I wonder what the >> > >> stance is to switching over to it as a default. If I remember >> > >> correctly, we switched do 7.8.x very quickly when that came out. >> > >> >> > >> -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ >> > >> nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> > >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > >> > >> > Right, but at the same time we want binary caches. By ‘default’ I mean >> > mostly ‘the one that Hydra builds all the Haskell packages > with’. I have >> > no doubt that we'd do this for multiple versions if the resources >> > allowed but Hydra is bogged down as it is. >> > >> > -- >> > Mateusz K. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > nix-dev mailing list >> > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > _________________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
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