On Friday, 30 September 2011 01:42:00 UTC+1, Antoine Latter wrote:
Why do you want to change the behavior of the 'clean' hook? Most users would expect it to clear out everything that 'configure', 'build' and such have done.
I would be cautious about subverting user expectations like that.
I'm only inquiring about changing the clean hook for this specific project, not cabal in general. And the reason I'm looking to change it is that building the C++ component takes a long time (over five minutes on my fairly average laptop), so cleaning everything every time is an extremely annoying inconvenience. My main questions are: 1. Is there some reason (other than 'safety') that "cabal install" cleans everything up? 2. Why does setting cleanHook to return () not have any effect? Thanks,