[Haskell-beginners] cabal -j

[Krzysztof Skrzętnicki]

For sure one downside is that the output is less verbose (you wouldn't
see anything otherwise) and buffered; in case of an error only last 10
or so lines are printed which makes it harder to debug. When I
encounter such problem I always rerun the build without -j to see the
actual problem in full.

Unexperienced users would have much problem with this.

Best regards,
Krzysztof Skrzętnicki

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Guy <guytsalmaves-h at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brent Yorgey wrote:
>>
>> No; when the -j flag is turned on it uses an abbreviated output format
>> that just tells you *what* it is doing (downloading XYZ package,
>> configuring foo, building baz...) but not the details, with the
>> details going to a separate log file for each package.  There may soon
>> also be a way to use it with hydra-print which could be nice.
>
>
> So if there aren't any downsides, why not make it the default?
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