Hi, Am Sonntag, den 17.03.2013, 21:04 +0100 schrieb Henning Thielemann:
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Ian Lynagh wrote:
I think it would be feasible to stop GHC itself from using the human readable format. The only place I can think of it being used is in the package database, but we could use either Read/Show for that, or just exclusively use the binary format.
I already needed the human readable format in order to check what information a custom configure file generated.
the debian packaging scripts modify the package data: $(if $(HASKELL_HIDE_PACKAGES),sed -i 's/^exposed: True$$/exposed: False/' $$pkg_config;) \ and also parses data from not-yet registered package files, and I think it also changes paths somewhere. For all that plumbing stuff, human readable file formats are very convenient. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata