On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 09:04:58PM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > >I think it would be feasible to stop GHC itself from using the human > >readable format. The only place I can think of it being used is in the > >package database, but we could use either Read/Show for that, or just > >exclusively use the binary format. > > I already needed the human readable format in order to check what > information a custom configure file generated.
You can use "ghc-pkg describe p" for that. I don't think you should ever need the human readable format unless you need to alter the package database by hand. -- Ian Lynagh, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel