Sounds good, but for some reason we have HscAsm as a target at the moment in GHCJS, and set it to HscNothing only after typechecking. I forgot why, might have something to do with TH. Do you have an implementation of this patch that i can test it with (even if it's not the final API or really ugly)?

luite

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Edsko de Vries <edskodevries@gmail.com> wrote:

Luite,

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Luite Stegeman <stegeman@gmail.com> 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