I think upgrading makes sense, but given the need to rebuild all haskell packages, we ought to push the upgrade to staging first.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015, at 09:50, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: > On 03/27/2015 04:21 PM, Shea Levy wrote: > > 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 > > > > Right, but at the same time we want binary caches. By ‘default’ I mean > mostly ‘the one that Hydra builds all the Haskell packages with’. I have > no doubt that we'd do this for multiple versions if the resources > allowed but Hydra is bogged down as it is. > > -- > 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