Re: finding the dependecies of cabal packages

On 8/1/05, Simon Marlow wrote:

Using this abstraction, we could construct "ghci --cabal" very easily. Using it in Visual Haskell would be tricky, because I believe we have a different internal representation of PackageDescription.

I don't know what "ghci --cabal" mean, but I think that our internal representation of PackageDescription could be useful in other applications too. The difference between PackageDescription and our representation is that the latter is more useful when you want to interactivelly edit the package description. The advantage of PackageDescription is that it is simpler and it is easier to parse/pretty print values of this type. Cheers, Krasimir