[GHC] #5027: Remove ability to use ghc-binary

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Mon Mar 14 15:15:38 CET 2011


#5027: Remove ability to use ghc-binary
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    Reporter:  igloo             |        Owner:              
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new         
    Priority:  high              |    Milestone:  7.2.1       
   Component:  Compiler          |      Version:  7.0.2       
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:              
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:              
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:              
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  None/Unknown
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 There have been a couple of cases recently where people have been using
 the `ghc-binary` package. We should either:
  * ship `binary` instead. Then people can legitimately use it, and as a
 bonus, as GHC moves to using `binary` the `Binary` instances for GHC's
 types will become available
  * Add something to GHC to allow us to ''really'' hide packages, so people
 can't use it

 We'll have to make some sort of decision about `hoopl`, too.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5027>
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