Removing GHC's dependency on Cabal

[Yuri de Wit]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <
> simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> To me it seems simple and obvious!  Why are we going round the houses to
>> do something so simple?
>
>
>  So cabal can maintain its conceit that it supports more than just ghc.
>

I don't understand this as an argument against the ghc-db library, which to
me also seems the simple and obvious solution.

Having a ghc-db library will mean one of two options:
1. The *ghc-db* is GHC-specific and will be used by the GHC specific
wrappers in Cabal: doesn't cabal already deals with each compiler
differently?
2. The ghc-db is really *hs-db* and a library contract that can be reused
by all haskell compilers (i.e. part of The Haskell Cabal)

In both cases, the assumption is that ghc-db/hs-db should have a stable API.

Now, choosing option (1) doesn't eliminate option (2). When and if there is
a broad agreement across all compilers, ghc-db could become hs-db and be
incorporate into The Haskell Cabal.




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