[GHC DevOps Group] Making GHC's fast release cadence work

[David Feuer]

It seems to mostly be an issue for stack, which wants a fully consistent
package set.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 12:54 PM Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:

> David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The biggest problems are for packages like containers, that are not only
> > used by GHC but also exposed to users through the GHC API. These
> libraries
> > aren't part of GHC or base, but pretty much have to move in lock step.
> >
> I'm not sure I understand why this is so. Yes, install plans involving
> the GHC library are forced to use the same version of containers that
> GHC uses, but I would think that this is not the common case.
>
> Assuming most people aren't linking against the GHC library then I don't
> see the harm in GHC staying a bit behind upstreams like containers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
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