[Haskell-cafe] Hackage: "Build: PlanningFailed"

[Volker Wysk]

Am Montag, dem 01.04.2024 um 13:38 +0200 schrieb Henning Thielemann:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2024, Iustin Pop wrote:
> 
> > Because the way entire toolchains and the associated libraries are built
> > and transitioned, you can't simply upgrade the compiler. A GHC or Perl
> > of Python transition in Debian (and thus Ubuntu) takes 1-2 months to
> > fully roll out, and more so probably for compiled things such as
> > Haskell. Plus, the entire distribution is stabilised before the final
> > released.
> > 
> > So you should count at least 6 months, if not a year, before the
> > distribution release date. Debian's Haskell group could always use more
> > hands as well ;-)
> > 
> > Just use ghcup or a more recent distribution within a VM to debug and 
> > test.
> 
> One can use Nix to install newer versions even under Ubuntu. I actually 
> install the Linux binary tarballs and compress them in a squasfs, because 
> every GHC installation consumes more than a gigaton of harddisk space.

Yes, my ~/.ghcup directory has 4.7 Gigabytes... That's a litte heavy. But so
what? It's the age of terabyte SSDs.

Cheers
Volker