Cabal compiling with profiling

[Isaac Jones]

Krasimir Angelov <kr.angelov at gmail.com> writes:

> We need something more general in VSHaskell. Usually each project in
> the Visual Studio environment has two configurations "Debug" and
> "Release" but the user can define his own configurations. The only
> difference between each configuration is in the command line switches
> passed to the compiler.

Or to the configure step?

> For Haskell projects this mean that each configuration will have
> different HookedBuildInfo associated. The profiling can be
> implemented in this more general framework if we add "Profiling"
> configuration. I still don't have clear design for configurations in
> Cabal. My first thought was that I can do this on top of hooks API
> but I am not sure whether it will be flexible enough.

Can you flesh this out a bit?  What do you mean by "configurations in
cabal"?  What are the issues that you're facing with the hooks?  We
need good feedback on the hooks.


peace,

  isaac