-O in 6.8.1-candidate

[Serge D. Mechveliani]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 03:25:04PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:54 -0300, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> 
> > How can user who does not modify Cabal file choose between all three of 
> > -O0, -O and -O2? 
> 
> They cannot. Cabal currently only support a binary notion of
> optimisations. So it's either -O0 or -O.
> 

As I understand, the Cabal developers claim that a user of an applied 
package  p  does not need to change anything in the file  p.cabal.
But there is a contradition here. 
For example, a user may need to build  p  via  p.cabal  under GHC and 
once under -Onot and next time under -O2.  Suppose also that once the 
user needs to build  p  under  -prof -auto-all  and next time -- under
-prof  only. How can one do all this without intruding into  p.cabal ?

Personally, I would like better if the default for Cabal does not set 
any GHC options, and a user to be invited to edit the field   
`ghc-options:' in the .cabal file.  This way, it looks simpler and 
less confusive.

Regards,

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Serge Mechveliani
mechvel at botik.ru