Re: Advance notice that I'd like to make Cabal depend on parsec

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Ian Lynagh wrote:

I think it would be feasible to stop GHC itself from using the human readable format. The only place I can think of it being used is in the package database, but we could use either Read/Show for that, or just exclusively use the binary format.

I already needed the human readable format in order to check what information a custom configure file generated.