Hi, In my project I needed a function that would parse a string into a template-haskell AST representing the Haskell expression. To be more precise I needed a function with the following type signature. :: String -> Either String Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.Exp This kind of function should exist in the implementation of template-haskell, however it is not exported for public consumption from template-haskell package. There is haskell-src-exts package that provides a Haskell expression parser however it uses its own Exp data type which differs from the template haskell representation Exp. After that, I found haskell-src-meta package that provided the function I needed: parseExp :: String -> Either String TH.Exp This function uses parser from haskell-src-exts package and after that translates returned Exp representation into the template-haskell representation of Exp. So problem has been solved. However, In the light of recent changes and enhancements in the haskell-src-exts, haskell-src-meta package on Hackage is broken. I have fixed the broken package and contacted its author and maintainer (Matt Morrow). However, he did not reply. I have a number of questions: Was the use of haskell-src-meta really neccessary, I mean, is there any other package that provides the functionality of aforementioned parseExp function? Can I upload the fixed version of haskell-src-meta package to Hackage and assume its maintenance while Matt Morrow is silent? Does anyone know how to contact Matt Morrow? His is not replying on my emails sent to the email address specified in the package description. The thing is that I do not want my package to be dependent on a package that is broken on Hackage. Cheers, George -- George Giorgidze http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ggg/