On Friday, 30 September 2011 01:42:00 UTC+1, Antoine Latter wrote: > > Why do you want to change the behavior of the 'clean' hook? Most users > would expect it to clear out everything that 'configure', 'build' and > such have done. > > I would be cautious about subverting user expectations like that. > I'm only inquiring about changing the clean hook for this specific project, not cabal in general.
And the reason I'm looking to change it is that building the C++ component takes a long time (over five minutes on my fairly average laptop), so cleaning everything every time is an extremely annoying inconvenience. My main questions are: 1. Is there some reason (other than 'safety') that "cabal install" cleans everything up? 2. Why does setting cleanHook to return () not have any effect? Thanks,
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