27 May
2009
27 May
'09
10:10 a.m.
Andrea,
2009/3/19 Andrea Vezzosi
It turns out that those variables are there to allow relocation, in fact $topdir is expanded by Distribution.Simple.GHC.getInstalledPackages, it seems that $httptopdir has been overlooked. I'd be tempted to say that it's ghc-pkg dump/describe responsibility to expand those vars instead, like it does for ghc-pkg field.
Do you (or anyone else) intend to work on this? If not, I'd like to fix it, but I'll need some guidance. Like, is Distribution.Simple.GHC.getInstalledPackages where the variable expansion code should go, or should it be somewhere else? Alistair