On 4 August 2011 17:06, Tom Doris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > Is there a good reason that the default for library-profiling in > .cabal/config is set to False? It seems a lot of people hit the problem of > trying to profile for the first time, finding it doesn't work because > profiling libraries haven't been installed, then they have to walk the > dependencies reinstalling everything. > Is there a major cost or problem with just defaulting this to True? > Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, I saw various discussions on why it > is difficult to automatically build required libs with profiling on demand, > but nothing that discussed changing the default so that they are always > built.
My guess is that this way, it reduces the build-time for users that are just using cabal-install to get Haskell programs (darcs, pandoc, etc.) or using Haskell for assignments but with no need/interest in profiling. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [email protected] IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
