Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 21:41 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > >> I'm somewhat tempted to patch our current ghc to do this, it might be >> easier to get that working than to get our current hacks to work >> properly. > > Attached is the current patch I'm testing. > > It's pretty minimal. It doesn't convert everything over to use a > directory of .conf files. It just makes ghc and ghc-pkg look for > package.conf.d/*.conf in addition to the normal package.conf. > > So in fact ghc-pkg still registers by modifying the global package.conf > file. It's just that this allows us to register without using ghc-pkg at > all and directly dropping a file into the right directory.
I really like this idea. I've had a variety of package registration difficulties in the past, sometimes requiring hand editing of the ghc-pkg data. A directory holding per-package .conf files would be much easier to navigate and examine. -- I've tried to teach people autodidactism, | ScannedInAvian.com but it seems they always have to learn it for themselves.| Shae Matijs Erisson _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
