I'm building a "wrapper" that is implemented by pulling out DriverPipeline and HscMain. Once that API seems OK we can turn it into a GHC patch.
On 26 June 2013 09:51, Luite Stegeman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
