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Re: [PATCH 15/15] gnu: Add GHC 8.0.1.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 15/15] gnu: Add GHC 8.0.1. |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 19:08:29 +0200 |
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Federico Beffa <address@hidden> writes:
> This is the newest GHC version. I'm adding it as opposed to updating
> the version of the current compiler because it is likely to break some
> of the 240+ libraries that we have and currently I can't commit to fix
> those.
I think this is the right approach. I have a branch in which I’m trying
to upgrade all of our libraries and it’s not straight-forward.
> There is a project https://www.stackage.org/ curating an LTS set of
> libraries playing well together and with a specific compiler version.
> It would probably make sense to sync with their work. They do use YAML
> configuration files. Is there somewhere a YAML library for Guile that
> we could use?
Good idea! This would make it easier to keep our large set of Haskell
libraries up to date and working, an improvement over what we have
today.
~~ Ricardo