On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:

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The package spec format is designed to be used with "read" (i.e. it's Haskell syntax), so Hugs could just read it using its built-in parser.

The format should be extensible, i.e. adding future fields should not break old code which does not use these fields. IMHO each field which is a list should be allowed to be skipped, defaulting to the empty list.

yep, good point. Simon