IMO (and this is not limited to Haskell) we should either always use the latest or, if the latest tends to provide a significantly different experience than the previous version, not have a default at all and require users to request a specific version. We do this for mysql in NixOS for example.
> On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi, > > GHC 7.10.1 was officially released this morning. I wonder what the > stance is to switching over to it as a default. If I remember correctly, > we switched do 7.8.x very quickly when that came out. > > -- > Mateusz K. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
