Shared data type for extension flags

[Matthew Pickering]

Surely the easiest way here (including for other tooling - ie
haskell-src-exts) is to create a package which just provides this
enumeration. GHC, cabal, th, haskell-src-exts and so on then all
depend on this package rather than creating their own enumeration.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Michael Smith <michael at diglumi.com> wrote:
> #10820 on Trac [1] and D1200 on Phabricator [2] discuss adding the
> capababilty
> to Template Haskell to detect which language extensions enabled.
> Unfortunately,
> since template-haskell can't depend on ghc (as ghc depends on
> template-haskell),
> it can't simply re-export the ExtensionFlag type from DynFlags to the user.
>
> There is a second data type encoding the list of possible language
> extensions in
> the Cabal package, in Language.Haskell.Extension [3]. But template-haskell
> doesn't already depend on Cabal, and doing so seems like it would cause
> difficulties, as the two packages can be upgraded separately.
>
> So adding this new feature to Template Haskell requires introducing a
> *third*
> data type for language extensions. It also requires enumerating this full
> list
> in two more places, to convert back and forth between the TH Extension data
> type
> and GHC's internal ExtensionFlag data type.
>
> Is there another way here? Can there be one single shared data type for this
> somehow?
>
> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10820
> [2] https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1200
> [3]
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.22.4.0/docs/Language-Haskell-Extension.html
>
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