Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-22 Thread Jordan Moore
Another thing to keep in mind is that packaging for development is different than packaging for a distribution. Packaging for a distribution you only want to pull in packages from stackage that are required to build eg. xmonad or shellcheck. However having robust importing for when those needs

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-22 Thread Divya
On 22 October 2024 14:32:08 GMT, Lars-Dominik Braun wrote: >Hi, > >> Is there a specific reason why we’re following the Stackage releases? >> Stackage is one step slower in getting the updates. The current Stackage >> Nightly is 9.8.2, while Hackage has 9.10.1. Is this due to some stability >>

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-22 Thread Lars-Dominik Braun
Hi, > Is there a specific reason why we’re following the Stackage releases? > Stackage is one step slower in getting the updates. The current Stackage > Nightly is 9.8.2, while Hackage has 9.10.1. Is this due to some stability > issues with Hackage? Stackage’s package collection is coherent an

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-22 Thread Divya
On 22 October 2024 08:43:47 GMT, Efraim Flashner wrote: >On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 03:53:48PM +, Divya Ranjan wrote: >> Andreas Enge writes: >> >> > Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 03:28:48PM + schrieb Divya Ranjan: >> >> Okay, should I contact them separately or do I need to CC someone >> >> spe

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 03:53:48PM +, Divya Ranjan wrote: > Andreas Enge writes: > > > Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 03:28:48PM + schrieb Divya Ranjan: > >> Okay, should I contact them separately or do I need to CC someone specific? > > > > From the checkout, you can do this: > >./etc/teams

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Divya Ranjan
Andreas Enge writes: > Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 03:28:48PM + schrieb Divya Ranjan: >> Okay, should I contact them separately or do I need to CC someone specific? > > From the checkout, you can do this: >./etc/teams.scm show rust > > ... > members: > + Efraim Flashner > > Well, so a team c

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Divya Ranjan
Hello Lars! Lars-Dominik Braun writes: >> 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

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 03:28:48PM + schrieb Divya Ranjan: > Okay, should I contact them separately or do I need to CC someone specific? >From the checkout, you can do this: ./etc/teams.scm show rust ... members: + Efraim Flashner Well, so a team can be one person ;-) I think Efraim read

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Divya Ranjan
Hello, Saku! Saku Laesvuori writes: > I think you need to add every other major release to the chain. We > already have 9.2 and 9.4, so 9.6 should not be a problem in that regard. Okay, so GHC needs to be incrementally upgraded, understood. >> Also, is the process of adding a GHC release, or a

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Lars-Dominik Braun
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 chan

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Divya Ranjan
Hello Andreas! Andreas Enge writes: >> Regarding copyright assignment, I've already started the paperwork by >> emailing >> the form to ass...@gnu.org. I did it through Emacs, but I believe I don't >> need >> to do it again? Some guidance for that would also be helpful. > > No need to assign

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Saku Laesvuori
> Hello Guix Devs, > > I've been using Guix for the last few months. As a Haskell programmer, > I realized the latest stable that's available in the guix package > repository is 9.2.8 which is _really_ old, considering that the > current stable releases are at least older than 9.6.x. > > I'd like

Re: Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Divya, I would like to only reply to your last point: Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 02:50:43PM + schrieb Divya: > Regarding copyright assignment, I've already started the paperwork by emailing > the form to ass...@gnu.org. I did it through Emacs, but I believe I don't need > to do it again? S

Haskell & Rust Team on recent stable releases of compilers

2024-10-21 Thread Divya
Hello Guix Devs, I've been using Guix for the last few months. As a Haskell programmer, I realized the latest stable that's available in the guix package repository is 9.2.8 which is _really_ old, considering that the current stable releases are at least older than 9.6.x. I'd like to contribut