On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 23:22 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
>
> > I'd like to work on this too. But I I'm lacking some knowledge here.
> >
> > At the moment cabal is using ReadP, right?
> >
> > Am I also right that ReadP is lacking user friendly error messages
> > compared to parsec?
> >
> > I like the idea of using either { ; ; } or indentation. Thus you
> > have
> > best of both styles, C and python such like the haskell language.
> >
> > So would it be ok to use parsec instead of ReadP?
>
> Another advantage of Parsec is that then you'd be able to install a
> Hugs package without passing the -98 flag every time. ReadP requires
> forall, but Parsec doesn't unless you use the expression parser, which
> I doubt Cabal would require.
>
> This will also make it easier to do a Yhc port of Cabal.
Actually I fixed that.
The issue was that hugs's version of ReadP needed -98 and Cabal's
'compat' version didn't, so I just changed the ifdefs so that hugs
always uses the compat implementation rather than it's own.
Duncan
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