[Haskell-cafe] haskell-ide repository name

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 07:05:39 UTC 2015


On 28 October 2015 at 11:05, Tillmann Rendel
<rendel at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>> The options are
>>
>>    haskides / ghc-ide-daemon / ghc-ide-service / ghc-ide-engine
>>
>> Please cast your vote at http://strawpoll.me/5842105
>
>
> ghc-service.
>
> Reasoning: If I understand correctly, this package provides ghc as a service
> to other processes. I expect that this service could be useful for non-IDEs.
> For example, I guess a hs-to-html tool could use this to hyperlink
> identifiers to their binding sites, but such a tool is not an IDE.

+1

Or you could expand it out a bit and get GHC-as-a-Service, or GaaS ;-)

Is this envisaged to be just a daemon/service, or also a library that
can be used (e.g. a nicer abstraction over trying to use GHC's
internals to parse Haskell code, etc.)?

>
>   Tillmann
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