Dear GHC Developers, I would like to ask your opinion on my ideas to make it easier to use development tools with GHC. In the past when working on a Haskell refactoring tool I relied on using the GHC API for parsing and type checking Haskell sources. I extracted the representation and performed analysis and transformation on it as it was needed. However using the refactorer would be easier if it could work with build tools. To do this, my idea is to instruct GHC with a compilation flag to give out its internal representation of the source code. Most build tools let the user to configure the GHC flags so the refactoring tool would be usable in any build infrastructure. I'm thinking of using the pre-existing plugin architecture and adding two new fields to the Plugin datastructure. One would be called with the parsed representation (HsParsedModule) when parsing succeeds, another with the result of the type checking (TcGblEnv) when type checking is finished. What do you think about this solution? Boldizsár (ps: My first idea was using frontend plugins, but I could not access the representation from there and --frontend flag changed GHC compilation mode.)