[GHC] #2550: Add an option to read file names from a file instead of the command line

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#2550: Add an option to read file names from a file instead of the command line
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 Reporter:  YitzGale         |          Owner:         
     Type:  feature request  |         Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal           |      Milestone:         
Component:  Compiler         |        Version:  6.9    
 Severity:  normal           |     Resolution:         
 Keywords:                   |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:                   |   Architecture:  Unknown
       Os:  Unknown          |  
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Changes (by YitzGale):

  * summary:  Add an option to use manifest files instead of filesystem
              hierarchy to find modules => Add an option to
              read file names from a file instead of the
              command line

Comment:

 Nice. Could this be documented in sections 5.6.1 and 5.6.3 of the
 manual please?

 There could be too many file names to be able to specify them on the
 command line. So it still would be useful to have an option to specify
 the file names in a file.

 Multiple modules per file now sounds like an orthogonal issuse,
 I'll open a separate request for that. And yes, Cabal support is
 another orthogonal issue.

 So it now sounds like this feature should be easy to do.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2550#comment:2>
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