[this follow mail is a bit - I started writing it during devconf.cz...]
The Fedora Haskell SIG is pleased to announce the arrival of GHC 7.8 in Fedora 22 Rawhide (development tree).
At the same there are currently still a number of provisos in Rawhide:
- a few packages have not yet been rebuilt/updated with ghc-7.8.4:
- build errors: bustle, ghc-ForSyde, ghc-type-level, ghc-parameterized-data
Bustle is now built - thanks to the author.
I am probably going to retire the ForSyDe stack (ie also type-level and parameterized-data) since it seems no longer maintained upstream.
Bruno Wolf is working on hedgewars, which I had forgotten to list.
- missing new deps: hledger, Agda, leksah, cab
hledger needs: tabular, wizards -> control-monad-free -> prelude-extras (as noted in the URM bug for a while now https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839234) Ben: do you have time for this?
Agda needs: equivalence, data-hash, boxes, STMonadTrans, and tf-random -> QuickCheck >= 2.7.5 I will try to submit packages after assessing QuickCheck-2.7.
leksah needs: regex-tdfa-text, vado, vcsgui, vcswrapper I am wondering if it might be better to move leksah to Copr? That would also get us quicker to gtk3 support ;o) and I don't think it does anything dyre-ish so I can quickly use cabal install there...
cab needs: conduit >=1.1, conduit-extra >=1.1.2 (I'd like to update conduit from 1.0 anyway.)
But we could also move some of these to Copr if they take too long...
- also the RTS seems to have some strange problems on ARM leading to crashes
which is under investagation: no idris build on armv7.
I had to disable various %check section on arm because of this. Reported upstream at https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10029
Many things seem to work though including pandoc and ghci and idris the only excluded package I think.
On another note I didn't get ghc-7.8 to build yet on arm64...
Do follow up with comments or thoughts.
Jens