[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: hackage compile failure with QuickCheck 2.5

[Andres Löh]

> I'm talking about unattended automated builds, so tweaking isn't an
> option.  On the other hand breaking the package environment isn't so bad,
> because I'm throwing it away after each build.

I'm not convinced that we should try to build packages at any price.
If they're likely to cause problems in a standard environment on a
user machine, then isn't it better to see this reflected on Hackage?

>> So in short, no combination of flags will work in this case, I think.
>> Failure is the best option.
>
> Actually --force-reinstalls does work in this case, and this thread began
> with Levent being unhappy with the failure option for his package, so
> I'm tempted to use that flag on all hackage builds.

Does it produce a usable package and environment, or does it just
work, but leave everything broken? I agree that using
--force-reinstalls on Hackage might be an acceptable option, and it's
probably better than using --avoid-reinstalls by default. However, it
may still send the misleading message that a package "builds just
fine" when it practice it doesn't.

Cheers,
  Andres

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