Dynamic libraries by default and GHC 7.8

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>wrote:

> At the moment, I do not see how dynamically built
> Haskell programs are in the interest of our user.
>

They do offer the prospect of fixing some annoying bugs for free, by
offloading them to existing, working system infrastructure. For instance,
we can't call C++ code from ghci right now, because ghci's loader doesn't
invoke static initializers that C++ libraries tend to use heavily.

The "save some bytes" argument seems like a red herring, but it's far from
the only thing to pay attention to.
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