[Haskell-cafe] Package metadata format - notes from discussion

[Peter Simons]

Hi Harendra,

 > It might help if the [Cabal] parser is modularized and detached from
 > the cabal tool itself so that it can be used independently by any
 > other tools wishing to do so.

I'm not quite sure how to interpret that statement. The parser for the
Cabal format is quite modular and re-usable already and has been available
in the Cabal library for years:

  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.24.0.0/docs/Distribution-PackageDescription-Parse.html

Am I missing something?

Best regards,
Peter