[Haskell-cafe] hsb2hs preprocessor looking for a maintainer

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 08:05 +0100 schrieb Max Bolingbroke:
>> On 4 August 2010 07:42, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
>> > out of a discussion in haskell-devscripts, John MacFarlane wrote a very
>> > nice tool, called hsb2hs, that allows you to include any binary (or
>> > text) file as a constant in your program.
>> 
>> When I've needed to do this in the past, I've used a simple bit of
>> Template Haskell:
>
> the problem is that Template Haskell does not work on all architectures,
> so the Debian people prefer solutions that avoid TH if it is not
> needed.

Yeah, we've just come across this problem in Gentoo when dealing with
how Haddock behaves when there's TH to be documented in some
architectures :s

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