Simon Marlow wrote:
I might be on my own here, but I happen to think that the way Gentoo encourages you to have local optimisation flag settings is complete madness. Probably the only good thing that can be said for it is that it's given the gcc developers a lot of good testing.
I don't think we want to do this for Haskell, it introduces one more way for things to go wrong, and one more thing to forget in a bug report.
Cheers, Simon
I think you dont want to make advanced features too easy to use... (on the other hand automatic error reporting can gather all the relavent system info into an email - and you can have a safe compile mode that ignores local settings). I was thinking it may be nice to have a standard way for installers to store installer specific data with each Cabal package... maybe a window style init file, that can be used for example to disable certain features... [gentoo] EXCLUDE_FLAGS=-O2 DEBUG_EMAIL=developer@haskell.org Keean.