[Haskell-cafe] use of -Werror

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 01:20:58 UTC 2014


Why does cabal-install twiddle flags though?

Surely if I say "default: False" that means "don't set this to True
unless you actually want it".  Having an extra "Manual" field seems
like duplication.

On 2 July 2014 07:42, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> I meant defaults to manual : false,
> But you get the idea.
> (I could be wrong. But still worth being explicit in your cabal files so no
> need to remember what the default is)
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 1, 2014, Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:
>>
>> Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> writes:
>> > every flag defaults to Manual: True I think
>> > and then when cabal is trying to find a good build plan it will twiddle
>> > flags!
>>
>> Wow.  Well, that's good to know.  Thanks.
>>
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