Drop into a nix shell with ghcHEAD

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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 9:34 AM Matthew Pickering <
matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have written a devastating new script which makes it easy to test
> snippets and packages with build artefacts built by the gitlab CI. One
> invocation of `nix-shell` will enter an environment with the most
> recent build artefact from master.
>
> Usage:
>
> ```
> > nix-shell
> https://github.com/mpickering/ghc-artefact-nix/archive/master.tar.gz
> unpacking '
> https://github.com/mpickering/ghc-artefact-nix/archive/master.tar.gz'...
> <lots more output>
> > ghc --version
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.7.20190115
> ```
>
> Repo: https://github.com/mpickering/ghc-artefact-nix
>
> So far we have tested it works on NixOS and darwin but support for
> other platforms that nix supports and we build artefacts for should be
> easy. It might already work on i386 and aarch64 as well but I didn't
> test these.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
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