Re: Patch/feature proposal: "Source plugins"

Luite, On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Luite Stegeman wrote:

I'd also be very happy with some plugin interface that allows us to use more GhcMake functionality from the GHC API. For GHCJS we would want to run our own (STG -> JavaScript) code generator on sources that need to be recompiled instead of letting GHC run its pipeline. Do you think that's possible with your proposal?

Probably; if you disable ghc's code generator (set hscTarget to HscNothing, ghcLink to NoLink) ghc will still do the dependency analysis, still process modules in the right order, and a source plugin still gets called on every module that gets typechecked correctly -- so you could potentially generate code at that point? Edsko