Devs,
I have some important information for everyone.
TL;DR1 As a rule of thumb, whenever you modify DynFlags or StaticFlags please
make absolutely sure that your changes are described in the User's Guide. See
Note [Updating flag description in the User's Guide] in DynFlags.
TL;DR2 Your
On 06/11/2014 12:06, Jan Stolarek wrote:
Devs,
I have some important information for everyone.
TL;DR1 As a rule of thumb, whenever you modify DynFlags or StaticFlags please
make absolutely sure that your changes are described in the User's Guide. See
Note [Updating flag description in
What about standardizing on an 'experimental' prefix such as -fx-use-rpaths
or -fx-kill-oneshot? These flags would not be added to the user guide and
their intent clear when actually using them.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 12:06, Jan Stolarek wrote:
>
>>
> Sometimes we add flags that are for experimentation or development
> purposes and not intended for user consumption, and these tend not to be
> added to the User's Guide. I suspect many of the flags you mention fall
> into this category. I suggest for these we have a specific comment in
> the s
> What about standardizing on an 'experimental' prefix such as -fx-use-rpaths
> or -fx-kill-oneshot? These flags would not be added to the user guide and
> their intent clear when actually using them.
As already stated in an earlier reply I think we should have documentation for
the sake of other
Agreed. For example, the HTTP standard has moved away from X-prefixed
headers for similar reasons.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> > What about standardizing on an 'experimental' prefix such as
> -fx-use-rpaths
> > or -fx-kill-oneshot? These flags would not be added to the
On 06/11/2014 13:02, Jan Stolarek wrote:
Sometimes we add flags that are for experimentation or development
purposes and not intended for user consumption, and these tend not to be
added to the User's Guide. I suspect many of the flags you mention fall
into this category. I suggest for these we
