Providing a smooth default user experience

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 16:52 +0100, Simon Hengel wrote:
> Duncan,
> 
> > > Moreover, it would be awesome if it would regenerate generated source
> > > files on :reload.  I'm not sure if this is feasible without changes to
> > > GHCi, but a custom macro, e.g.
> > > 
> > >     :cabal-reload
> > > 
> > > could still work.
> > 
> > The GSoC project that started this off did that, and the necessary
> > changes are in ghc now.
> 
> That is interesting.  I'd be interested in how exactly that works.  Is
> there a place where I can read about it?  Or if not, can you point me to
> the related commits?

http://lambdasandwich.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/ending-gsoc.html

For the changes to ghci see the ghc git repo. Look for stuff related
to .ghci file handling. That was the main extension needed, so we could
specify a .ghci file on the command line.

Duncan