Changes in GHC API modularity with the "Encode shape information in PMOracle" MR

[Shayne Fletcher]

Seeing what I can do.

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:31 AM Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shayne,
>
> out of curiosity, could you find out which of the three modules DsMonad,
> FamInst and TcSimplify lead to the blowup? If it's not too much of a
> hassle, that is.
> These are the only imports of PmOracle that aren't already exported from
> ghc-lib-parser.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
> Am Mo., 16. Sept. 2019 um 22:38 Uhr schrieb Shayne Fletcher <
> shayne.fletcher at daml.com>:
>
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 5:23 PM Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Shayne,
>>>
>>> Sorry to hear that! We didn't consider modularity at all and I would be
>>> happy to try to refactor in a way that would allow `ghc-lib-parser` to be
>>> properly separated again.
>>> I'm fairly certain that I didn't directly touch anything parser related,
>>> but apparently the new cyclic import of PmOracle within TcRnTypes (which is
>>> also exposed from `ghc-lib-parser`) pulled in the other half of GHC.
>>> I'll see if I can fix that tomorrow, if only by extracting a separate
>>> `Types`-style module.
>>>
>>>
>> That sounds awesome. Tremendous. Thank-you! Please feel free to reach out
>> to me if there's anything I can do to help your analysis[*]!
>>
>> [*] For the record, the procedure for calculating the `ghc-lib-parser`
>> modules is a little complicated by there needing to be some generated
>> equivalents of `.hsc` files present for this to work but the procedure is
>> at the end of the day just `ghc -M` invoked over `Parser.hs`.
>>
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>
>> Fingers crossed and all the best!
>>
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