Re: [opensuse-haskell] LTS 8.0 is out

On 13 February 2017 at 17:18, Peter Trommler wrote:

Hi Peter and fellow Haskellers,

...

On 12.02.2017, at 13:08, Peter Simons wrote:

Fellow Haskell hackers,

Stackage LTS 8.0 has been released and we have created the corresponding https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:languages:haskell:lts:8 project. That project is our new source of packages for openSUSE:Factory (via devel:languages:haskell, the official development project), which means that quite a few updates will materialize in Tumbleweed soon -- the most obvious one being GHC version 8.0.2, of course.

Updating to LTS 8.0 is not going to be smooth sailing all the way, though, because there is an impressive list of packages that have been dropped from LTS 8.x compared to our current state in d:l:h: [...]

I'm particularly baffled that the Stackage folk would make an LTS release that cannot build "stack"! Well, you can use stack from LTS 7.* to build your LTS 8.0 project. This, however, does not work for us as a distribution. We want one single consistent set of packages. I'll try to remedy that issue, i.e. we'll certainly continue to distribute that package. As far as the others are concerned, the default choice is to drop them. So of there is any package on that list which you desperately need for your work, please speak up and let us know. It would be sad to lose Idris and yi.

I'm pretty sure most of the packages above will return, once upstream has had a chance to make them compile with ghc 8.0.2. Why don't we just wait for at least stack to be back in LTS before we upgrade.

I imagine the release managers and legal will be appreciative if they don't have additional churn by Haskell as we remove packages (after a full review cycle) and reintroduce them as new a couple of weeks later, where the full (as opposed to difference) review cycle will start over.

Just my 2ct +1 , big part of list go back to LTS8 in few weeks. I saw in github fixed shelly, probadly all yesod packages , plus we can test if packages builds with LTS8 and if is needed only relax version constraints or more fixes:)

Peter-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-haskell+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-haskell+owner@opensuse.org

Kin Regards Ondrej -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-haskell+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-haskell+owner@opensuse.org