Add to Stackage

[ndmitchell]

Having ghcide in Stackage is super useful for company's that base their package set on Stackage. Could it please be added? I'm happy to be the point person and add it myself, if you wish.

Note that adding it right now might not be the best timing since Stackage just rolled to GHC 8.8 and consequently everything is in flux. But in a few weeks it's a definitely useful step.

[cocreature]

Sure, happy to add it once the deps are back in nightly.

[ndmitchell]

Everything is now back in nightly.

[cocreature]

We’ll need a new release before we can add it to stackage. I was hoping to include a bump to a newer hie-bios release in the next release but given that this seems to be taking longer than I initially thought, I’ll probably make one without that.

[turion]

Releasing to stackage would be great! Plans on doing that soon?

[v217]

For the vast majority of users running a docker container is easier, than getting familiar with Nix. With the vscode extension Remote Development this has become the fastest way to get started!

So until there is a great solution for binaries for stackage, a docker image is maybe the most user-friendly option?

Nix has other problems as well! It only works with bash, it has problems with xattrs on NFS, ZFS, btrfs, etc ...

[ndmitchell]

@v217 - adding ghcide to Stackage is useful, independent of anything else you've said. Perhaps you want to create another ticket to advocate including another option? It's certainly not an either/or situation - we can be on Stackage and have binaries, a Nix script, a homebrew installation etc.

[v217]

@ndmitchell Absolutely agree, just wanted to mention this option!

[ndmitchell]

Btw, its likely that specific forms of distribution (including binary) will be done through https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server rather than ghcide, and that project will bundle ghcide plus plugins.

[ndmitchell]

Once haskell/ghcide#429 gets merged we'll be in a state to add it. Furthermore, it's just a few days before the next Stackage LTS cutoff, so that's convenient.

[ejconlon]

I can confirm that everything builds fine and all tests pass locally with lts-15.0. However, a new release (0.2.0?) is needed to allow stack install ghcide to work outside the project.

[ndmitchell]

#954 was caused by not yet being in Stackage.

[jamesdbrock]

You know, it would make a huge amount of sense for ghcide to be in Stackage.

In the top directory of any stack.yaml-based project, you could just $ stack exec --package ghcide ghcide -- --lsp and then ghcide would be locally compiled with the same version of GHC that project uses, and executed.

[jneira]

I think we could merge this with #400