[Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:26 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:08 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 
> > > > - Found that on hackage, downloaded and built OK. Lots of scary
> > > > warnings about happy, greencard etc, not being found during configure,
> > > > but let's go on.
> 
> > > I've complained about these before, although I don't think anyone
> > > considered doing anything about it.
> 
> > We know what needs to change, but it's not a trivial change.
> 
> > The problem is that currently .cabal files to not specify what build
> > tools they need, 
> 
> A possible stop-gap might be to only report the build tools that were
> actually found?  The way it is now, it looks too much like an error
> message.

Mmm, good point. Perhaps we could just change the verbosity of that
message for now, so that it doesn't appear at the default verbosity
level.

Duncan