Re: [Haskell-beginners] Stackage latest snapshot

The preparing your system for Stackage page[1] has those auto-updated

Michael Snoyman writes: links available (e.g., GHC 7.8 exclusive is [2]). Thank you. I read the page at least 3 times, but missed that because the links redirected to the latest snapshot, and the Stackage server only has static snapshot links. Perhaps it should be made clearer that these links will redirect to the current snapshot, and add them to http://www.stackage.org/snapshots as well?

You already identified the downside with this: you may magically be upgraded to a new version of a package. If you really want to do this, you can, but my recommendation is to manually decide to upgrade your Stackage snapshot consciously instead of letter an arbitrary Jenkins build server make the decision for you.

I'm using Stackage as a QA'd Hackage. It sounds like you see it more as a server-side cabal freeze.