17 Mar
2013
17 Mar
'13
4:11 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 09:04:58PM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
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.
You can use "ghc-pkg describe p" for that. I don't think you should ever need the human readable format unless you need to alter the package database by hand. -- Ian Lynagh, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/