Am Montag, dem 01.04.2024 um 13:38 +0200 schrieb Henning Thielemann:
On Mon, 1 Apr 2024, Iustin Pop wrote:
Because the way entire toolchains and the associated libraries are built and transitioned, you can't simply upgrade the compiler. A GHC or Perl of Python transition in Debian (and thus Ubuntu) takes 1-2 months to fully roll out, and more so probably for compiled things such as Haskell. Plus, the entire distribution is stabilised before the final released.
So you should count at least 6 months, if not a year, before the distribution release date. Debian's Haskell group could always use more hands as well ;-)
Just use ghcup or a more recent distribution within a VM to debug and test.
One can use Nix to install newer versions even under Ubuntu. I actually install the Linux binary tarballs and compress them in a squasfs, because every GHC installation consumes more than a gigaton of harddisk space.
Yes, my ~/.ghcup directory has 4.7 Gigabytes... That's a litte heavy. But so what? It's the age of terabyte SSDs. Cheers Volker