"mafia ghci" doesn't understand flags in cabal file about mafia

[amosr]

out of curiosity, does mafia repl work? might suffice as a workaround for now

[erikd-ambiata]

Indeed it does. Curious!

[markhibberd]

That is the explicit difference between repl and ghci. repl uses cabal and related info, ghci is for using ghc directly and explicitly ignoring anything to do with cabal.

[erikd-ambiata]

explicitly ignoring anything to do with cabal

It doesn't ignore everything to do with cabal. For instance, it uses the local cabal sandbox. The ghci command only exists to work around what I consider a bug in cabal's repl command, ie that you can't tell cabal repl to load a file that is not mentioned in the cabal file. If that bug was fixed, I think the desired behavior of repl and ghci could actually be the same.

[markhibberd]

Ok, that is not what I use it for, repl is project based, ghci is file based, this distinction has always existed and wasn't to work around anything. They are very different things for very different purposes for me.

[erikd-ambiata]

My main use of mafia ghci is try out experimental code that is related to the current project, but may or may not end up in the current project.

If ghci was "fixed" to correctly handle flags defined in the local cabal file, would it break anything for you?