Re: HEAD vs Hackage status report

2013-10-10 Thread Richard Eisenberg
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

RE: HEAD vs Hackage status report

2013-10-01 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Bryan O'Sullivan Sent: 30 September 2013 07:26 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: HEAD vs Hackage status report 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

Re: HEAD vs Hackage status report

2013-10-01 Thread Richard Eisenberg
To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: HEAD vs Hackage status report 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

Re: HEAD vs Hackage status report

2013-10-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 08:00 -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel h...@gnu.org 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

HEAD vs Hackage status report

2013-09-30 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
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

Re: HEAD vs Hackage status report

2013-09-30 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
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 killer features of Hackage 2, incorrect build-deps were supposed

Re: HEAD vs Hackage status report

2013-09-30 Thread Johan Tibell
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com 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