On 27/10/2010 22:47, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 04:46:56PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
I'm currently hacking a little bit on ghc (and Cabal) to add some
Great!
custom data stored in ghc's package database. For now this will be
just another field `distPackageId'
I think "localInfo" would be a better name. Just a free text field
people can put whatever they like in.
I seem to recall there was a suggestion in the past to have a list of
key-value pairs for each package, for OS-specific or
local-installation-specific information. That would be more general
than just having a single field, but there might need to be some
convention for what to call the keys to avoid accidental clashes.
Cheers,
Simon
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