* Duncan Coutts <duncan.cou...@googlemail.com> [2013-03-14 17:12:14+0000] > The InstalledPackageInfo and its parser is what ghc and ghc-pkg > primarily use (though there's the opportunity to share code for handling > package indexes) and that type and that parser are also going to end up > using text and parsec etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it just a strange coincidence that InstalledPackageInfo is serialised in the format similar to .cabal format? InstalledPackageInfos aren't supposed to be edited by hand and do not need good error reporting. They can be serialized using any serialization library. (Then again, "any serialization library" like aeson would probably bring more dependencies than you're considering...) Roman _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
