RE: Default name of target executable

On 11 October 2005 06:29, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

On 10/10/05, Simon Marlow wrote:

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There's no really deep reason for this choice, other than it being what GHC does normally - i.e. the default binary has always been a.out (main.exe on Windows) unless -o is given.

I don't see enough of a compelling reason to change it, sorry. It's not broken, just slightly inconvenient.

It wasn't meant to be a bug report, only a feature request ;-)

Actually, I was mostly interested if anyone would mind if GHC chose the name based on the top-level module.

Would you accept the patch?

I'm slightly inclined not to make this change, but I could be swayed if there was enough interest in it. What I'm seeing so far is not overwhelming support for the change. Simon PJ is in favour, though. You can always use Cabal, BTW :) Anyone else? Cheers, Simon