Meta: Feature Requests

[evancz]

Do not reply directly to this issue. It will be deleted. This is just for aggregating what everyone wants so we can try to address it all in a coherent way.

I have tried to categorize feature requests to see what kinds of things folks are interested in, so I can prioritize work appropriately.

Warnings

• 108 - option for --warn to be treated as errors

• 141 - turn on --warn by default

• 137 - warn for unused functions

• 181 - warn for unused variables

• 153 - warn for unused arguments

• 158 - warn for import X exposing (unused)

• 173 - no warnings for specific files

Editor Stuff

• 47, #118 - coherent format for --report=json

• 27 - always spit out all warnings with --report=json

• 73 - let editor folks get color markers in types and such

• 29 - add file name and line number in documentation.json for jump to definition

• 149 - add README, package name, version to documentation.json

• 28 - make it easier to get docs for dependencies

• 87, #162 - more info about dependency graph

• 10 - add flags to print out types

• 99 - Have "one line" format for inlining errors in editors.

User Stuff

• 88, #60 - add way to force a rebuild

• 77 - add --output-dir flag

• 2 - ask before creating elm-package.json

Automated Testing

• 70 - print errors to stderr instead of stdout

• 84 - caching of built files on a machine to make things faster

Better Semver Reliability

• 61 - no open imports in packages, avoid name collisions due to adding names to subpackages