| 31 Aug 2025 |
 Ember Void | wth a load of servant in it | 17:46:22 |
 lxsameer | cool cool. seems like i can handle my workload with it | 17:46:47 |
 maralorn | In reply to @dandart:matrix.org
maybe it's to make things nix-buildable?
either way a full install with prefix will still build manually Yes, it is to make things nix buildable. | 17:46:50 |
| maralorn | But it's still very rough around the reges. | 17:48:16 |
| maralorn | * | 17:48:26 |
| Ember Void | I kind of gave up nix-building haskell projects because I wanted to keep up with hackage versions (and especially text 2.1.2) - I had to keep jailbreaking things but the package versions in nixpkgs unstable / haskell-updates were still very behind. I presume they were up to date with various stackage snapshots but I don't use stack as I end up missing updates.
I ended up just doing it by getting only ghc and cabal through nix-shell, and then getting cabal to do everything cabal style. That way I can allow people who don't want to use nix be able to do things just as well with ghcup.
hence haven't tried to nix-build any haskell bits in a good while. | 17:52:03 |
| maralorn | Yes, nixpkgs will lag behind, especially in the last year because we get to little help maintaining it. But very often not having the bleeding edge is fine for most usecases. | 18:22:12 |
| Ember Void | that's fair enough, I have contributed fixes to it before | 18:23:22 |
| 1 Sep 2025 |
 Artem | regarding https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/429810#issuecomment-3242423178
it's curious that the test suite hangs on "network client and server" (the last line) Something about network configuration on hydra machines?.. | 13:46:14 |
