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[S. Alexander Jacobson]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Isaac Jones wrote:
>> 3. Can I access the source of all exposed modules in an installed
>> package to enumerate its external module dependencies and import
>> chase?
>
> Not the source of binary packages, but the .hi files have this
> information, I believe.

Can I access the .hi files of the hidden modules as well?
Do you know how to extract import statements from .hi files?

>
>> 4. If you have an unpacked package in a directory, is there a path
>> from the cabal file to the relative paths of each file in the package?
>> (so you can point at a repository rather than a tarball and access it
>> via http).
>
> Yeah.  You can derive it from the module name plus the hs-source-dirs.

What about other stuff like enclosed C files, makefiles, etc?

-Alex-

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