Any news on this? I'd really like to have this in GHC 7.8.1 so that we can release a fully working GHCJS with GhcMake functionality based on it. I'd be happy to help write the patch.
luite On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > Guys, > > I'm not following the details here, but I'm open to suggestions (patches, > even) that improve the GHC API. > > Simon > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > | On Behalf Of Thomas Schilling > | Sent: 11 June 2013 12:53 > | To: Edsko de Vries > | Cc: [email protected] > | Subject: Re: Patch/feature proposal: "Source plugins" > | > | On 5 June 2013 13:51, Edsko de Vries <[email protected]> wrote: > | > It is a little bit messy mostly because parts of the AST get lost > | along the > | > way: quasi-quotes in the renamer, data type declarations and other > | things > | > during type checking. A more ideal way, but also more time consuming, > | would > | > be to change this so that the renamer leaves evidence of the quasi- > | quotes in > | > the tree, and the type checker returns the entire tree type checked, > | rather > | > than just a subset. I think that ultimately this is the better > | approach, at > | > least for our purposes -- I'm not sure about other tools, but since > | this > | > would be a larger change that affects larger parts of the ghc pipeline > | I'm > | > not sure that I'll be able to do it. > | > | I needed something similar. In particular, I built a custom code > | generator, but now I need a similar feature for extracting information > | from a Haskell file (for IDE features). > | > | Since I needed to modify one-shot compilation mode I couldn't use the > | GHC API. For the IDE stuff I'm using Shake as the build manager, so > | that also needs a customized one-shot mode. For my current > | implementation I just copied and adapted the necessary parts of > | HscMain, DriverPipeline, etc. That's very messy, fragile and breaks > | on every GHC release so I'd really like to see the necessary features > | put into GHC. > | > | Do you have a working patch somewhere? > | > | _______________________________________________ > | ghc-devs mailing list > | [email protected] > | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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