[ghc-steering-committee] Plugin recompilation avoidance interface (#108)

[Ben Gamari]

Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> writes:

> Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> writes:
>
>> And even if, in the future, we have ability to provide a finer grained
>> mechanism, we can add the necessary functions _then_ when we know how
>> it looks.
>>
> Your argument is pretty compelling. I'll admit that part of my dislike
> of the the simple approach that you advocate is purely aesthetic; it
> just feels terribly ad-hoc. That being said, you do raise a valid point
> that we really don't know enough to be able to say what a more precise
> interface would look like.
>
> Moreover, there is something to be said for the nice
> backwards-compatibility story that the simple approach allows.
>
> I would be fine accepting the simple approach. Either way, I think we
> should move this proposal forward to unblock our contributor.
>
Does anyone object to accepting the simple approach as suggested by
Joachim?

Cheers,

- Ben
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