Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
FWIW I've run into this one myself, and use (clones, if necessary, of) v1 sandboxes for it currently. I've also been both bitten by, and helped by, environment files. The former is somewhat nastier, especially if you have multiple versions of ghc around and a given environment file was generated

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread amindfv
> El 28 mar 2019, a las 3:26 PM, Richard Eisenberg escribió: > [...] > 2. I get pilloried every time I say it, but I vastly prefer global package > databases to local ones. I'll second this in one specific context. v2-build has been amazing at work and in general for project-based

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread lennart spitzner
On 28/03/2019 13:24, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > [..] We > want to be able to provide a stateful interface providing the common > idiom users from non-Nix UIs are used to, and which `cabal` and `ghc` > already provided in the past; [..] On 28/03/2019 19:33, Michael Peyton Jones wrote: > +1 to

Re: gitlab.haskell.org is down

2019-03-28 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Shayne Fletcher via ghc-devs writes: > >> Hi, >> >> It seems gitlab.haskell.org has been down since around 17:30 GMT. Outage? >> > Yes, I just sent notification of this. A routine service restart ended > up going wrong. In touch with our infrastructure company's support

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2019-03-28 at 18:33:58 +, Michael Peyton Jones wrote: > +1 to the `cabal ghc`/`cabal ghci` etc. solution. This is the approach used > by many other tools that handle this kind of thing. For example: ..just because everyone else does it this way doesn't mean that it's the best way.. I'd

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Richard Eisenberg
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 3:09 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel > wrote: > > That being said, I'd be more interested to know the actual problems > people are having I've run into two problems. I don't expect others to run into these particular problems, as my workflows are likely different than

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Phyx
> I am quite confused as to how people are using `ghci` without loading the environment files, at least in the context of cabal v2 (aka "new cabal"). When you run `ghci` on its own, unless you load an environment file, you would only have access to globally installed packages, which is almost

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Vanessa McHale
I use cabal new-repl. I actually kind of like having GHC environment files (maybe not as a default) but they remind me of "vim turds" in that they end up littering your projects. Cheers, Vanessa McHale On 3/28/19 1:09 PM, Iavor Diatchki wrote: > I am quite confused as to how people are using

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Iavor Diatchki
I am quite confused as to how people are using `ghci` without loading the environment files, at least in the context of cabal v2 (aka "new cabal"). When you run `ghci` on its own, unless you load an environment file, you would only have access to globally installed packages, which is almost never

Re: gitlab.haskell.org is down

2019-03-28 Thread Ben Gamari
Shayne Fletcher via ghc-devs writes: > Hi, > > It seems gitlab.haskell.org has been down since around 17:30 GMT. Outage? > Yes, I just sent notification of this. A routine service restart ended up going wrong. In touch with our infrastructure company's support team. More updates coming soon.

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2019-03-28 Thread Ben Gamari
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2019-03-28 Thread Shayne Fletcher via ghc-devs
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Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 28/03/2019 14.58, Oleg Grenrus wrote: > There is. Add > >     write-ghc-environment-files: never > > to your ~/.cabal/config assuming you have cabal-insall-2.4.1.0 or later. > That doesn't really work if you actually want to be able to use both ways of working, does it? That same thing

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Iavor Diatchki
I used to be confused by the environment files too until I figured out what they are, and now I use them all the time. It is really nice to be able to have the "old fashioned" way of just running ghci and having it be aware of the current project your are in. To me, it really makes sense to be

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Richard Eisenberg
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel > wrote: > > I for one would hate to remove what I consider a useful feature I don't see anyone is asking for a feature removal here. This thread seems to be more about how to set a default. I personally find it surprising for a tool

Re: Hadrian Transitive Dependencies

2019-03-28 Thread David Eichmann
I've started a wiki page to document some of this discussion https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/Developing-Hadrian. We'll also need to deal with ouputs as well as inputs (dependencies) soon. Hence I've expanded a bit on my understanding of rule *outputs* and added the terms "vital input"

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2019-03-28 at 15:55:01 +0200, Bryan Richter wrote: [...] > If we want Nix-style builds, let's do them Nix style, and use a shell. Cabal supports multiple workflows/idioms. Sometimes you want a transient sub-shell (which is the one you're e.g. limited to when using Stack), while sometimes you

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Oleg Grenrus
There is. Add     write-ghc-environment-files: never to your ~/.cabal/config assuming you have cabal-insall-2.4.1.0 or later. - Oleg On 28.3.2019 15.49, Richard Eisenberg wrote: > I have spent quite a bit of time debugging this issue, being utterly > surprised about the existence of these

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Bryan Richter
I am +1 on not reading them by default. I dislike implicit configuration (that's enough reason there), and it interacts poorly with other tools that use ghc. Like Richard Eisenberg, I also think of ghc as a low-level utility, but I recognize that intuition is already wrong in various ways. (ghc

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Richard Eisenberg
I have spent quite a bit of time debugging this issue, being utterly surprised about the existence of these files. Furthermore, until today, I had been unable to find a way to turn the feature off. I now understand (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/13753) that there is an undocumented

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Matthew, I realize this to be a controversial issue, but what you're suggesting is effectively an attempt at cutting this cabal V2 feature off at the knees ("If Cabal won't change its default let's cripple this feature on GHC's side by rendering it pointless to use in cabal"). If ghc environment

Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

2019-03-28 Thread Matthew Pickering
Hi all, Environment files have caused a large amount of pain for users because they are read by default by GHC. For example: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4542 Cabal developers have indicated that they are not going to stop generating them by default despite the overwhelming user