Dynamic libraries by default and GHC 7.8

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> Perhaps we should look again at the option that we discarded: making
> -static the default, and require a special option to build objects for
> use in GHCi.  If we also build packages both static+dynamic at the
> same time in Cabal, this might be a good compromise.
>
> Static by default, GHCi is dynamic:
[...]

+1