registering packages in ghc using a directory of package files

[Simon Marlow]

Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 13:17 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
>>Duncan Coutts wrote:

>>I had in mind allowing -package-conf to specify either a directory or
>>a file, with the obvious interpretation.
> 
> 
> I think that's how I did a version of this patch a year or so ago.

My apologies, I dropped the ball on that one.  It came around the time 
we were making other large changes to the package code, I think.

I've made a ticket for this task now:

   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/723

Cheers,
	Simon