[Haskell-cafe] 2008-10-13 Hackage status with GHC 6.10 release candidate

[Thomas Hartman]

>For the first time ever, we're able to have all the 3rd party code
>tested and ready to go

By "all the third party code" do you mean everything on

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html ?

My two packages, happs-tutorial and external-sort, are not represented
in your report, and many others also not. I'd be curious to know if my
stuff is ghc6.10 compatible.

Thomas.


2008/10/14 Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>:
> Hey all.
>
> The GHC 6.10 RCs are out, and we're preparing the release of GHC proper.
> To help manage the transistion to GHC 6.10 it is now possible to
> actually build all the 3rd party Haskell packages, and publish their
> results wrt. the release candidate.
>
> For the first time ever, we're able to have all the 3rd party code
> tested and ready to go *prior* to the release of the new compiler and
> base libraries.
>
> Using GHC 6.10 RC from today, Cabal 1.6 and cabal-install 1.16, of 682
> libraries and apps tried in total,
>
>      1 UnpackFailed
>      2 DownloadFailed
>      2 InstallFailed
>     16 ConfigureFailed
>     68 DependencyFailed
>    122 BuildFailed
>    469 InstallOk
>
> Since yesterday,
>
>    * dependency failures have reduced by 5
>    * build failures have reduced by 10
>    * total successfully installed packages are **up by 14**
>
> These new packages now all build ok with the GHC 6.10 release candidate,
>
>    Graphalyze-0.4
>    alsa-midi
>    calc
>    glome-hs
>    harpy
>    heap
>    hmp3
>    ircbouncer
>    mohws
>    panda
>    pandoc
>    roguestar-engine
>    type-level
>    typeof
>    unicode-prelude
>    urlcheck
>
> Good work everyone!
>
> Some packages are still not ready though, if you maintain one of the following
> packages, and are able to fix it before GHC 6.10 is released, your users will
> be happy.
>
> The most common issues for these differences are,
>
>    * Changes to Arrow class definition
>    * Changes to types of Map and Set functions
>    * Cabal changes
>    * Changes to ghc-api
>    * Changes to when 'forall' is parsed (add Rank2Types)
>    * GHC.Prim was moved,
>    * Changes to -fvia-C and headers
>    * GADT changes,
>    * pragma warnings tightened
>    * Integer constructors have moved
>    * New warnings and used -Werror
>
> The following packages are still producing different results than with ghc
> 6.8.2.  Package maintainers are invited to look at them.
>
> I've marked the easy ones.
>
>    ArrayRef-0.1.2
>        Easy:   duplicate type signatures
>    CLASE-2008.9.23.2
>        Hard:   GADT changes
>    EdisonCore-1.2.1.2
>        Easy:   Monadic Map
>    HPDF-1.4
>        Easy:   Monadic Map
>    HaLeX-1.1
>        Easy:   Name clash with permutations
>    Hashell-0.15
>        ?   :   GHC API
>    Hipmunk-0.2
>        Easy:   Monadic Map
>    MemoTrie-0.0
>        Easy:   'forall' parsing
>    NewBinary-0.1.1
>        Easy:   Integer constructors moved
>    PArrows-0.1
>        Easy:   GHC.Prim moved (use GHC.Exts)
>    TypeCompose-0.5
>        Easy:   Arrow class changes
>    YamlReference-0.9.2
>        Hard.   Unknown
>    Yampa-0.9.2.2
>        Arrow class changes
>    arrows-0.4
>        Arrow class changes
>    bytestring-show-0.2
>        Easy:   Integer constructors moved
>    cabal-setup-1.2.1
>        Hard:   Cabal changes
>    chp-1.1.0
>        Easy:   Arrow class changes
>    cmath-0.3
>        Hard:   -fvia-C changes
>    fixpoint-0.1
>        Easy:   Uses -Werror unnecessarily
>    hasim-0.1
>        Hard:   GADT changes
>    hask-home-2007.12.6
>        Easy:   Cabal changes
>    hetris-0.2
>        Easy:   header macros/-fvia-C
>    hexpat-0.2
>        Easy:   'forall' parsing in RULES
>    hinstaller-2008.2.16
>        Easy:   Cabal changes
>    hint-0.2.4.1
>        Hard?   GHC API
>    hslackbuilder-0.0.1
>        Easy:   Cabal changes
>    hxt-8.1.0
>        Easy:   Arrow class change
>    iException-0.0.1
>        ?       Exception changes
>    libGenI-0.16.1
>        Easy:   Monadic Map changes
>    mage-1.1.0
>        Hard:   -fvia-C changes
>    numeric-prelude-0.0.4
>        Easy:   Lanuage pragma
>    plugins-1.3
>        Easy:   Cabal changes
>    quantum-arrow-0.0.4
>        Easy:   Arrow class changes
>    regex-tdfa-0.94
>        Easy:   Map changes
>    streamproc-1.1
>        Easy:   Arrow class changes
>    stringtable-atom-0.0.4
>        Easy:   Monadic Map
>    typalyze-0.1.1
>        ?       GHC API
>    xmonad-utils-0.1
>        ?       GHC API
>    yhccore-0.9
>        ?       Pragma parsing
>
> Build reports for everything, produced today, are here,
>
>    http://galois.com/~dons/tmp/build-logs-2008-10-13/
>
> How to address these, as library maintainers, is addressed here,
>
>    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Upgrading_packages
>
> If you'd like to try your own build of all of hackage, grab a package
> list (such as this one),
>
>    http://www.galois.com/~dons/tmp/pkgs-6.10
>
> Install a GHC 6.10 release candidate, upgrade to Cabal 1.6 (on hackage),
> and cabal-install 0.6 (on hackage), and then simply,
>
>    cabal install -v -O0 $(cat pkgs-6.10) --build-reports
>
> This will construct a clever plan to install all the packages in the
> right order, and write logs to ~/.cabal/logs and a full structured build
> report into ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.*/build-report.log
>
> I'll start mailing maintainers personally tomorrow.
>
> -- Don
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