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Re: GHC 8.4.3
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Timothy Sample |
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Re: GHC 8.4.3 |
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Thu, 27 Sep 2018 21:53:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Joe,
Joe Hillenbrand <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not a guix expert yet, so I looked at updating GHC and I got way
> out of my depth real fast.
>
> I just wanted to say thanks.
You are very welcome.
>> Some of you may recall that I started work on updating all of our
>> Haskell packages to their LTS 12 versions, and making sure they all
>> build with GHC 8.4.3.
>
> Is this lts-12.10?
Very good question! I meant to mention this, in fact. I froze
everything at 12.8, so that I wouldn’t have to chase a moving target.
Once everything is merged, we can keep track of the latest LTS 12
updates like we normally do with the importer.
> ghc-8.6.1 was release a couple weeks ago, but I assume it will be added
> after lts-13.0 comes out.
Hopefully! We did skip GHC 8.2.2, so it’s hard to say.
>> There are 21 failing packages.
>
> corrode[1] should probably be removed. It hasn't been touched in over a
> year and a half and has been surpassed by c2rust[2]. I'm also pretty sure
> nobody except the author ever really used it as it had a lot of bugs and
> couldn't convert much C code.
That’s good to know. Thanks for mentioning this.
> [1] https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode
> [2] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
-- Tim