Re: Create branch for Haskell build changes and updates?

[Xinglu Chen]

On Wed, Jul 07 2021, John Kehayias wrote:


>> Thank you for bringing this up! I posted a WIP patch for adding GHC
>> 8.10 a while ago, but nobody showed any interest[1].
>>
>> I don’t have any experience with updating the Haskell toolchain in Guix,
>> but I think it would be great to have a separate branch for updating the
>>
>> haskell-build-system and Haskell packages. :)
>>
>> [1]: https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87o8cgfbg1.fsf@yoctocell.xyz/
>
> I'm no expert in Haskell packages (every time I dive in anywhere it
> always seems a bit of a mess), but I'm happy to help out. Given the
> number of interdependent packages, probably makes sense to do this
> anytime needing to update a core package, GHC, etc.
>
> Does any maintainer or someone with repository access want to set this
> up? Perhaps someone that has already handled Haskell updates?

Browsing through older threads on guix-devel, Ricardo seems to have some
experience with Haskell stuff in Guix[1].  Any chance that you are
interested in helping out?  :)

[1]: https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87mu386vk5.fsf@elephly.net/

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