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Ignoring False positives #146
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I think you might be asking for a combination of #58, and a way to say that some rules must match - is that correct? |
@ocharles yes that sounds right. |
Ok. I think that for TH you probably want those definitions as roots, not ignored weeds. For roots = [
# All `main :: IO()` functions
'^Main.main',
# Automatically generated and outside our control
'^Paths_.*',
] In our config, which you might want to copy. |
Alright, but then I still have a need for unused root patterns to be an error. |
Yea, for sure - I've also wanted weeder to be self weeding there! Maybe a nice little fix for ZuriHac 2024 🙂 |
Closes #2043 # Local usage notes I suspect that HLS in VS Code spontaneously pollutes the `.hie` directory, because after a few successful invocations, `weeder` started complaining with: ``` incompatible hie file: /home/kostmo/github/swarm/.hie/Swarm/Web/Auth.hie this version of weeder was compiled with GHC version 9064 the hie files in this project were generated with GHC version 9048 weeder must be built with the same GHC version as the project it is used on ``` ## Fixing false positives Previously, for each `library` and `executable`, the HIE directory was always the same: ``` ghc-options: -hiedir=.hie ``` However, most of the executables have at least one module path that is the same relative to their `hs-source-dirs` base: namely, `Main.hs`. This resulted in all but one of the `Main.hie` files being overwritten in the end. To avoid this, I have specified a different `-hiedir` for each `library`/`executable`/`test` that parallels its `hs-source-dirs` base. This way, so long as `hs-source-dirs` are unique across these targets, all of the `*.hs` files across the entire project will have unique `*.hie` paths. ## Whitelisting exceptions There are some known limitations with `weeder` regarding support for Template Haskell and type families. Exceptions are specified in the `roots` list in `weeder.toml`. After removing a handful of dead functions myself, there are approx. 30 "true positive" weeds that I have listed explicitly in `weeder.toml`. Maintenance of this list of exceptions should eventually be easier with ocharles/weeder#146. # Integration with CI I found a ready-made GitHub Action for weeder: https://github.com/freckle/weeder-action I hacked support directly into the generated `.github/workflows/haskell-ci.yml` file. Ideally, the generator would have an option for a `weeder` step. Indeed, there is an open issue for supporting `weeder` in `haskell-ci`: haskell-CI/haskell-ci#132 A separate but related functionality that would be nice in `haskell-ci` is to specify **one** of the GHC versions in the matrix to do additional validations/builds that would be redundant if performed on the other matrix entries. I suppose `weeder` is inexpensive enough to redo four times, but the `weeder` binary is not available for download for all GHC versions (e.g. ghc `9.8.2`). Something like `haddock` we probably only need to build once. I have hacked this in to the generated file for `weeder` with a simple [`if` condition](https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/pull/2044/files#diff-73f8a010e9b95aa9fe944c316576b12c2ec961272d428e38721112ecb1c1a98bR227).
It would be really nice to be able to run weeder in CI.
Unfortunately it still shows many false positives, such as the
Paths_
modules and TH-spliced functions.So I propose to have a part of the config file called
expected-weeds
that lets you describe false positives that weeder should ignore.It should also error when one of the expected weeds is not found, because otherwise weeds will grow in that section of the configuration file.
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