Build system idea

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 28, at 22:00, Sterling Clover wrote:
> We do have, although not with easy access, an additional declarative  
> layer "built in" 90% of the time as configuration as type signature.

Sure?  I think it's easier than you think:  someone's already written  
code to extract the information from .hi files (and indeed ghc will  
dump it for you:  ghc --dump-iface foo.hi).  In theory there could be  
a master dictionary of these hosted on hackage, collected from each  
package's own dictionary, and a given package's dependencies could be  
computed with high accuracy from it.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH