Re: Which version of ghc will stretch have?

2016-09-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 09.09.2016, 19:24 +1000 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo: > Clint Adams wrote: > > > > > There's still an annoying number of packages which are incompatible > > with 8.0.  Unless things like > > https://github.com/ekmett/recursion-schemes/issues/21 are addressed > > in the next mo

Re: Which version of ghc will stretch have?

2016-09-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > wouldn't this mean forcing a version while building each package, and making > mistakes > when end users use a different one from the one that has built all the > haskell packages? Well, if they are building the debian package from source, the ghc version would be

Re: Which version of ghc will stretch have?

2016-09-09 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >I wonder if its not time for Debian to ship more than one major version >of the compiler? Personally I like to have at least the last there major >releases of GHC on all me development machine. wouldn't this mean forcing a version while building each package, and making mistakes when end

Re: Which version of ghc will stretch have?

2016-09-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Clint Adams wrote: > There's still an annoying number of packages which are incompatible > with 8.0. Unless things like > https://github.com/ekmett/recursion-schemes/issues/21 are addressed > in the next month or two, I fear we're going to be stuck with > 7.10. I wonder if its not time for Debia