snapframework/snap — Issue #19: -fhint flag does not work with cabal-dev
Author: ozataman
Created: 2011-11-23 21:42:23+00:00
State: open

Currently, snap requires you compile with -fhint to enable devel mode. I know of no way to get this to work with cabal-dev. In my opinion, this is unacceptable. My reasons are:

- cabal-dev or something similar is absolutely a given for serious projects
- Devel mode is absolutely critical to GUI-heavy projects. Without it, we are not a competitive framework (both with haskell and many non-haskell leading frameworks).

The current workaround is to clone snap to a local repo, tweak the default -fhint setting and do cabal-dev add-source.