[Haskell-cafe] Props to cpphs; why so little used?

[Brandon Allbery]

Not everyone wants to be restricted to GPL, for one.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 9:19 PM Anthony Clayden
<anthony.d.clayden at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thank you to the author and maintainers of cpphs  https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cpphs
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> It has tightly-focussed functionality for what I wanted to do: a more haskell-friendly counterpart to cpp.
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> How to get it to behave as I wanted wasn't always obvious. I made some notes  https://stackoverflow.com/a/73768057/2840542
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> Haskell libraries generally use cpp -- and then users complain how awkward it can be. I don't see that cpp does anything better/different vs cpphs -- that is, cpphs understands all the #if compiler_version logic. Then why isn't every library preferring cpphs?
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> AntC
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