Hi, > > Also, is the process of adding a GHC release, or any Haskell package > > any different from the typical procedure to add a package? I'd like > > some introductory guidance/resources to learn that. > > Not really, but this specific update (GHC 9.4 to 9.6) is quite tricky > because GHC changed their build system from a make to Hadrian. Hadrian > written in Haskell and depends on quite many packages, so we need to > build all those with an earlier GHC version to be able to build the > current GHC. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67921 for the current > situation with this. I am still quite busy with other things in life, so > feel free to pick those patches up.
in addition, note that we’re importing packages matching our GHC version from Stackage where possible and not the latest and greatest from Hackage. Lars
