Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Plugin recompilation avoidance interface (#108)

Ben Gamari writes:

Joachim Breitner writes:

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And even if, in the future, we have ability to provide a finer grained mechanism, we can add the necessary functions _then_ when we know how it looks.

Your argument is pretty compelling. I'll admit that part of my dislike of the the simple approach that you advocate is purely aesthetic; it just feels terribly ad-hoc. That being said, you do raise a valid point that we really don't know enough to be able to say what a more precise interface would look like.

Moreover, there is something to be said for the nice backwards-compatibility story that the simple approach allows.

I would be fine accepting the simple approach. Either way, I think we should move this proposal forward to unblock our contributor.

Does anyone object to accepting the simple approach as suggested by Joachim? Cheers, - Ben