Multi-version GHC PPA for Travis-CI (was: GHC HEAD vs Hackage, panic-free edition)

[Dag Odenhall]

This is great; I can finally test my package that requires GHC 7.6 on
Travis. Thank you!


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2013-10-15 at 16:27:43 +0200, Edward Kmett wrote:
> > Carter and I started a conversation with the travis-ci guys about how to
> > support multiple Haskell versions a year and a half ago, but it fizzled
> out
> > and not much came of it.
>
> Fyi, as I didn't want to wait any longer for travis-ci to support
> multiple GHC versions I went ahead, picked up debian packaging, and
> built some minimal GHC .deb packages (which probably don't follow best
> practices, but it does the job as a proof of concept) in an Ubuntu PPA:
>
>  https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ghc
>
> ...and here's an example how to set up .travis.yaml to test with a couple
> of GHCs:
>
>  https://github.com/hvr/deepseq-generics/blob/master/.travis.yml
>
> The result can be seen here:
>
>  https://travis-ci.org/hvr/deepseq-generics
>
> HTH,
>   hvr
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