Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-27 Thread John Wiegley
Oliver Charles ollie writes: At work, we still can't build with GHC 7.8.2 because various dependencies are still broken. However, that's not really the end of the world - I can just change our expressions to use haskellPackages_ghc763 rather than haskellPackages. Just wanted to note that

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-27 Thread Oliver Charles
I should point out that I've since got everything with working with GHC 7.8, and we've in fact now switched work's compiler to be 7.8. On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:20 PM, John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com wrote: Oliver Charles ollie writes: At work, we still can't build with GHC 7.8.2

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-09 Thread Peter Simons
Hi guys, an almost finished version of the re-factored haskell-default.nix is now available in the haskell-updates branch of my Nixpkgs repository [1] for your reviewing pleasure. Check out [2] for a brief description of the changes so far. Test builds at

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-07 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Kirill, Why do we need this .haskellPlatform at all? we've had those attributes for a long time, and keeping them around in some fashion doesn't seem like a big effort. Personally, I don't need those either, but apparently some people do? Best regards, Peter

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-07 Thread Gergely Risko
Hi, I think all this ideas worth going for. Having outdated different happy and alex linked to the ghc763 packages was annoying since GHC 7.8 build system started requiring the new versions. Personally I always prefer to just use the newest versions and then help the community fix the breakage.

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-07 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Oliver, At work, we still can't build with GHC 7.8.2 because various dependencies are still broken. do you have a list of packages that are still causing trouble? We provide haskellPlatform_X_Y_Z attributes in all-packages.nix that install a particular version of HP -- including the

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-07 Thread Oliver Charles
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi Oliver, At work, we still can't build with GHC 7.8.2 because various dependencies are still broken. do you have a list of packages that are still causing trouble? No concrete list because one breakage tends to