Thoughts on the Contributing page

[Alp Mestanogullari]

Hello,

On 29/01/2019 14:08, Andreas Klebinger wrote:
> On hadrian:
>
> Documentation will eventually catch up as more people use hadrian but 
> imo things that
> need to be supported are:
>
> - Some workflows:
>   * make fast
Right, so we're in the process of discussing something very much related 
at https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16253. For reference, this is 
what 'make fast' does: 
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Using#Skipdependencybuilding
>   * ./validate
I'm in the process of tweaking the validate script to have an 
'--hadrian' mode. I'll document it as soon as it works, along the code 
changes, in the upcoming merge request.
>   * make EXTRA_HC_OPTS="..."
I think you can already achieve this (but it's perhaps not documented in 
'make.md'), with the flavour/user settings mechanism: 
https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/hadrian/doc/user-settings.md (see 
for example the different 'userArgs' definitions).
> - On windows build.bat defaults to stack which I think has never 
> worked on my box.
Andrey? (cc'd him)

>
> There are also a few quality of life issues like ctrl+c not canceling 
> the build on windows.
> Which I hope will be resolved at some point but not sure if these 
> should be showstoppers.
>
> ghc-devs-request at haskell.org schrieb:
>> One more thought I'd like to throw out in the open here:
>>
>> The current Newcomers' Guide uses the current Makefile workflow, but
>> this is on a fast track to deprecation - but then, I doubt Hadrian has
>> seen enough exposure yet to use for a good beginner-friendly "Just
>> Works" guide. I'm leaning towards sticking with make for now, also
>> because existing material is already written this way; and then once
>> Hadrian is truly ready for prime time, we can rewrite the relevant
>> parts.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
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