#12052: Split ghc-boot so we have better dependency hygiene -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 8.0.2 Component: Core | Version: 8.0.1 Libraries | Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- At the moment, `template-haskell` transitively depends on `bytestring`. This means that any package which depends on `template-haskell` has its `bytestring` version pinned to the version that was shipped with GHC. Which is lame, because `template-haskell` doesn't actually use `bytestring` in any interesting way. This is bad, we should split `ghc-boot` into two pieces, one which has the binary package database bits, and another which contains the Template Haskell bits, so we can have better dependency hygiene. We should also have a comment on `template-haskell` mentioning the importance of dependency hygiene, so this doesn't happen again. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12052 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler