On Nov 11, 2015, at 2:25 PM, Edward Kmett <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a data point, in a couple of packages I wind up forced into using > mkNameG_v and mkNameG_tc in order to avoid incurring a dependency on a stage2 > compiler today. Removing them would force me to drop support for stage1-only > platforms offered by some linux distributions. > > If you're going to drop support for it, please consider offering me some > horrible back door to get at the functionality that I can't currently replace > by other means. >
I've had to use these functions, too, mostly because TH didn't export the functionality I needed. But this wouldn't be problematic in the new scenario: just depend on the ghc package instead of template-haskell. Then you can do whatever you like. :) > -Edward _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
