Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell Platform, anyone?
On 2014-11-07 at 19:11, Peter Simons wrote: > How do others feel about that? Do you desperately want to be able to > install Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 any time soon? I have no objection to removing old HP. In an ideal world, I'd would like to use Nix for continuous integration, to answer questions like "will users with HP-2012 installed be able to install my library?" That's the only reason I can imagine caring about HP being in Nixpkgs. But there's a fair bit of other tooling missing to do that, and we can always add HP back if enough people want this sort of CI in the future. bergey signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell Platform, anyone?
I've proposed a patch at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/4894. Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell Platform, anyone?
On 11/07/2014 07:11 PM, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi guys, > > Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 has been released a while ago, and I can't > help noticing that no-one seems to be in a hurry to add that to Nixpkgs. > Apparently, there not much of a demand for Haskell Platform in Nix? > > This makes me wonder about the old HP releases that we still have: > 2009.2.0.2, 2010.1.0.0, 2010.2.0.0, 2011.2.0.0, 2011.2.0.1, 2011.4.0.0, > 2012.2.0.0, 2012.4.0.0, and 2013.2.0.0. > > All of those builds were pretty much non-functional until recently > because none of them actually installed a compiler into the user > profile, but no-one noticed that for a period of several months. > > Having those old versions around forces us to keep ancient versions of > many HP member packages like HTTP, mtl, vector, etc., too, and that adds > a bit of complexity to Nixpkgs. Since no-one seems to *use* that stuff, > I'm tempted to say that we should drop support for Haskell Platform > altogether and to throw out all these ancient package versions in the > process. > > How do others feel about that? Do you desperately want to be able to > install Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 any time soon? > > Best regards, > Peter > I think the only reason why anyone using nix would want HP is to make sure their program compiles using it. I think HP 2014 is just not popular enough yet to be targeted. There's always Travis CI and whatnot for double-checking I guess. We probably could just drop it: if someone wants to still use it, they can revive it from git and/or pin the versions themselves. I do think it might be worthwhile to provide HP 2014 eventually, but only ‘in spirit’: pin library versions as they appear in the HP rather than trying to build their official package. Maybe that's what's done already for older versions, I haven't checked. -- Mateusz K. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell Platform, anyone?
I never use the Haskell Platform with nix, because nixpkgs.haskellPackages is already a curated package set that always seems to work together. Perhaps people transitioning projects to nix from other platforms would get some benefit out of having access to the Platform as such, but in my context (several moderately large commercial projects), it doesn't come up. On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi guys, > > Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 has been released a while ago, and I can't > help noticing that no-one seems to be in a hurry to add that to Nixpkgs. > Apparently, there not much of a demand for Haskell Platform in Nix? > > This makes me wonder about the old HP releases that we still have: > 2009.2.0.2, 2010.1.0.0, 2010.2.0.0, 2011.2.0.0, 2011.2.0.1, 2011.4.0.0, > 2012.2.0.0, 2012.4.0.0, and 2013.2.0.0. > > All of those builds were pretty much non-functional until recently > because none of them actually installed a compiler into the user > profile, but no-one noticed that for a period of several months. > > Having those old versions around forces us to keep ancient versions of > many HP member packages like HTTP, mtl, vector, etc., too, and that adds > a bit of complexity to Nixpkgs. Since no-one seems to *use* that stuff, > I'm tempted to say that we should drop support for Haskell Platform > altogether and to throw out all these ancient package versions in the > process. > > How do others feel about that? Do you desperately want to be able to > install Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 any time soon? > > Best regards, > Peter > > ___ > 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] Haskell Platform, anyone?
Hi guys, Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 has been released a while ago, and I can't help noticing that no-one seems to be in a hurry to add that to Nixpkgs. Apparently, there not much of a demand for Haskell Platform in Nix? This makes me wonder about the old HP releases that we still have: 2009.2.0.2, 2010.1.0.0, 2010.2.0.0, 2011.2.0.0, 2011.2.0.1, 2011.4.0.0, 2012.2.0.0, 2012.4.0.0, and 2013.2.0.0. All of those builds were pretty much non-functional until recently because none of them actually installed a compiler into the user profile, but no-one noticed that for a period of several months. Having those old versions around forces us to keep ancient versions of many HP member packages like HTTP, mtl, vector, etc., too, and that adds a bit of complexity to Nixpkgs. Since no-one seems to *use* that stuff, I'm tempted to say that we should drop support for Haskell Platform altogether and to throw out all these ancient package versions in the process. How do others feel about that? Do you desperately want to be able to install Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 any time soon? Best regards, Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
