Bug 457778

Summary:	dev-lang/ghc - Please follow up http://www.haskell.org/platform/ closer.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	M. B. <tomboy64>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo's Haskell Language team <haskell>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	457780
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Description M. B. 2013-02-16 02:16:53 UTC

Currently stable ghc in main is ancient. Since most of the haskell-packages are in the haskell overlay, for haskell users it is common to live on bleeding edge and use everything keyworded from the haskell overlay as default.

Yet, the most crucial item in the Haskell landscape is GHC. A chat with geekosaur in IRC revealed that not the currently released GHC is the generally upstream-supported version but what can be obtained via http://www.haskell.org/platform. Considering that the current GHC in stable is ancient and 7.6 is considered "bleeding edge" by Haskell folks i propose tracking what is currently provided by platform as stable - either in the overlay or (preferrably) in main.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-16 21:14:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 457780 ***