| 5 Jun 2021 |
 toonn | Las: Maybe haskell.nix is a better fit for you. | 12:51:39 |
 Las | Maybe yeah | 12:52:06 |
| toonn | The Nixpkgs Haskell infra's primary (only?) goal is to facilitate providing Haskell programs in Nixpkgs. | 12:52:18 |
 maralorn | toonn: That’s not how I see it. | 12:52:33 |
| toonn | It's really cool how usable it can be for general development but that is not it's goal. | 12:52:50 |
| toonn | *its | 12:53:11 |
| maralorn | I think providing a large consistent collection of precompiled libraries is great. | 12:53:23 |
| toonn | Sure, but that's what stackage is. | 12:53:46 |
| maralorn | toonn: Ours is larger ;-) | 12:54:05 |
| toonn | As soon as you step outside of the stackage purview in the Nixpkgs infra you open yourself up to trouble. | 12:54:12 |
| toonn | It's not really. | 12:54:17 |
| toonn | You said a consistent collection. | 12:54:25 |
| toonn | I assume building together is implied by that. | 12:54:35 |
| maralorn | Yeah | 12:54:47 |
| toonn | And that's only reliably true for the Stackage subset. | 12:54:52 |
| maralorn | toonn: And for everything that we actively maintain. | 12:55:55 |
| toonn | Maybe. I don't know whether anyone does build matrices comparing to all of stackage? | 12:57:03 |
| toonn | And my original point still stands. If you are the kind of dev that always wants the latest GHC, the infra isn't really for you. | 12:57:45 |
| maralorn | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
And my original point still stands. If you are the kind of dev that always wants the latest GHC, the infra isn't really for you. Yeah, that is certainly true. | 12:58:16 |
| maralorn | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
Maybe. I don't know whether anyone does build matrices comparing to all of stackage? I am not certain what you mean with that. | 12:58:48 |
| Las | I personally just want GHC 9 because of improved aarch64 support | 12:58:55 |
| maralorn | Las: I am eager to get it, too. I hope it will be soon. | 12:59:28 |
 cdepillabout | toonn: I'm not sure what you're trying to compare when you're talking about stackage vs nixpkgs. Nixpkgs generally has about 6000 haskell packages building, while stackage only has about 3000. There is really no comparison. | 13:01:20 |
| toonn | cdepillabout: That's all well and good until you try to depend on more than one at the same time. | 13:01:55 |
| toonn | Jailbreaking isn't a good option. | 13:02:11 |
| cdepillabout | toonn: Ah, you mean depend on more than one version of GHC? | 13:02:24 |
| toonn | When I used the infra I had to jailbreak and disable tests constantly. Felt like maintaining my own tiny stackage. | 13:02:55 |
| toonn | No, just packages. | 13:03:02 |
| toonn | Especially if you need a newer version of anything. | 13:03:28 |
| cdepillabout | That's definitely not how I feel at all. | 13:03:39 |
