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It'll be good to get this back into stackage eventually, but we'll need the 2.0 release on Hackage.

Two reasons: 1. AIUI, we need a hackage release for stackage to pick up. 2. Because we need to make decisions about what to cut or we'll never get something...

Yes. An intermediate release will be too much work, and I'll burn out before 2.0 is ready. 1.x has had no release for years, another couple of months of no-release...

> Edit: I guess `while true; do nixos-install; done` is a solution for now. ~~Not completely. I sometimes like to stress-test my computer and nixpkgs by running `nixos-rebuild --no-net`, and...

@colemickens my theory is that there's a race which is only triggered when a derivation `D` is scheduled to be built directly after one of its immediate inputs `I`. It...

I think you misread my comment. Can you repro if large is the input to small?

Still important, and stalebot is still a jerk.

> > Basically, do we want `Handle`-specific versions of `unsafeAcquire` and `unsafeRelease`? > The `Handle`-specific version of `unsafeRelease` is `hClose`. Yes, I can see it now - thanks. > I...

> Should we provide a toolkit for these, maybe in terms of `Coercible (UnsafeResource a) r =>`, to make writing linear wrappers easier? To elaborate on this point: I was...

Meta: I am also a little thrown by the way that functions that return `(result, resource)` tuples return the result in the left side of the tuple. Example: `hGetChar ::...