That makes a lot of sense as a distinction.   Thanks for you open source canary 
taking one for the team, hope we didn't kill it and that it makes a full 
recovery :)

> On Dec 7, 2017, at 6:18 AM, Neil Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> With my open source library hat on, CI should be the canary in the
> coalmine for my users, not a perfectly reproducible thing that proves
> it can be installed on an old version my users aren't using. I think
> for public stuff the redirect is exactly the right thing. I also
> "stack init" my projects on the CI to test with the latest versions,
> which is even worse for breaking consistency. I combine that with CRON
> jobs that kick off all my CI things nightly, so I am explicitly
> testing for the passage of time.
> 
> With my commercial developer hat on, there's no way I'd have
> redirected to an arbitrary stack! A very valid strategy for the right
> use case.
> 
> Thanks for the binaries!
> 
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Emanuel Borsboom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ha, my unintelligible English here is probably due to staying up way too
>> late getting stack-1.6.1 out :)  Let me try that again...
>> 
>> It might also be good if our CI examples recommend the best practice of
>> specifying an exact Stack version by pointing directly to a specific Github
>> release rather than using the convenience redirects.  What happened here is
>> one example of breakage if CI scripts don't specify a version; another would
>> be that a behaviour change in Stack breaks CI.
>> 
>> Also, more importantly, the Windows 32-bit binaries are up now!
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 7, 2017, at 6:13 AM, Emanuel Borsboom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> It might also be good if CI examples we recommend the best practice of
>> specifying an exact Stack version by pointing directly to a specific Github
>> release rather than using the convenience redirects.  What happened here is
>> one example of breakage if CI scripts specify stick to a specific version;
>> another would be that a behaviour change in Stack breaks CI.
>> 
>> On Dec 7, 2017, at 5:34 AM, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> We should probably change the way that stackage.org finds binaries. All of
>> the old binaries are present on Github still, it's just the lookup that
>> isn't working, since it only considered the most recent release.
>> 
>> Yes, this is an ugly situation, we're still trying to play catch-up.
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Neil Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can I suggest that in future you leave the old binaries around until
>>> the new ones are available? My Windows CI automatically hits that URL,
>>> so it broke :(
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Michael Snoyman
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I believe there are plans to release it still. As the release
>>>> announcement
>>>> mentioned, we didn't complete the normal release procedure to rush the
>>>> fix
>>>> for GHC 8.2, and some binaries are still being compiled.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Neil Mitchell <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The page https://www.stackage.org/stack/ links to
>>>>> https://www.stackage.org/stack/windows-i386, which now gives a 404.
>>>>> Where did the 32bit binary disappear to?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Neil
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