> The lack of extra_command_line_opts is not important,
> but I wonder, why make things worse?
> One handcraft teacher said
> "make it best possible from the start, for it will outcome bad by
> itself".
>
> I thought the idea of -package was to collect in one place all
> the project-specific settings. For example, for my project docon,
> I need
> doconOpts = -fglasgow-exts -fallow-this-and-this ...
I'm in two minds about this. At the moment, using a -package option
does two well defined things:
- it brings a set of modules into scope
- it links in the object code for those modules
According to the Principle of Least Astonishment, we should force the
user to add any extra options himself, because if '-package wibble'
automatically adds a number of language-feature options then it's just
too magical and non-obvious.
On the other hand, I presume you *need* these options in order to be
able to use Docon, so adding them automatically would seem reasonable.
Opinions, anyone?
Cheers,
Simon
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