Tobias Dammers
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 03:01:24PM +0000, Matthew Pickering wrote:
Whilst we're at it, is there any consensus to make the default build settings more friendly to developers?
The default is still perf which takes a very long time. devel2 would be an appropriate choice I think for newcomers.
The way I wrote it right now is that for the very first build, you use whatever default GHC ships with, just to make sure you succeed in making a clean build on a pristine checkout. After that, I do recommend using the "devel2" flavour.
I do believe that release build settings should be the default though, simply because of the "install from source" use case. Aspiring GHC hackers will have to learn how to configure the build anyway, might as well teach them right away.
Agreed. The default in a clean checkout should remain perf. However, it would be reasonable for the newcomers instructions to start off with devel2. For most contributors working in compiler/ this is the right default. Cheers, - Ben