[Haskell-cafe] Stackage with GHC 7.8 has started

[Michael Snoyman]

I'm not aware of any binary snapshot available. I generally don't build GHC
from source either, but did so to start this set of testing.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Sebastiaan Visser <haskell at fvisser.nl>wrote:

> Michael,
>
> I see one of my packages is on that list, because of the upper bound on
> template-haskell. I would love the raise the upper bound, but of course
> only if it will actually build.
>
> Can I download a binary version snapshot GHC 7.8 somewhere so I can test
> and apply changes accordingly? I actively avoid building GHC from source.
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastiaan
>
>
> On Oct 13, 2013, at 5:50 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I wanted to announce that FP Complete is now running a Jenkins job to
> build Stackage with GHC 7.8. You can see the current results in the
> relevant Github issue[1]. Essentially, we're still trying to get version
> bounds updated so that a build can commence.
> >
> > I'd like to ask two things from the community:
> >
> > * If you have a package with a restrictive upper bound, now's a good
> time to start testing that package with GHC 7.8 and relaxing those upper
> bounds. It would be great if, when GHC 7.8 is released, a large percentage
> of Hackage already compiled with it.
> > * If you have a package on Hackage that is not yet on Stackage, now's a
> great time to add it. We're going to be doing daily builds against three
> versions of GHC (7.4.2, 7.6.3, and 7.8), which will help ensure your
> packages continue to build consistently.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/128
>
>
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