I spent a little time the other day building all of Hackage with GHC HEAD.
Here's a quick writeup of what I found.
Total packages: 5564
Succeeded with 7.6.3: 3234
Succeeded with HEAD: 2061
Succeeded with 7.6.3 *but failed with HEAD: 1186*
(A few dozen packages built with HEAD, but not with 7.6.3,
On 2013-09-30 at 08:26:10 +0200, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
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> Most of the breakage could be fixed by loosening the dependencies on the
> template-haskell and primitive packages, and here are the rest.
Btw/fyi, as one of the new killer features of Hackage 2, incorrect
build-deps were supposed
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> I spent a little time the other day building all of Hackage with GHC HEAD.
> Here's a quick writeup of what I found.
Thanks for taking the time to do this. It should really help the
quality of this release. In general I think we should t
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On 2013-09-30 at 08:26:10 +0200, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>> Most of the breakage could be fixed by loosening the dependencies on the
>> template-haskell and primitive packages, and here are the rest.
>
> Btw/fyi, as one of the new k
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I spent a little time the other day building all of Hackage with GHC HEAD.
Here's a quick writeup of what
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> I spent a little time the other day building all of Hackage with GHC HEAD.
> Here's a quick writeup of what I f
On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 08:00 -0700, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> > On 2013-09-30 at 08:26:10 +0200, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> >> Most of the breakage could be fixed by loosening the dependencies on the
> >> template-haskell and primitive pa
For future reference (my own future reference, most likely), here are why these
packages break:
On Sep 30, 2013, at 2:26 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 12 language-c-0.4.2the last parameter of ‛Error’ is at role Nominal
Legit error. The Error class has Typeable as a superclass, and using
