Hello all, Since we're relaxing the constraint that a package ID correspond to exactly one installed package in the package database, it will now sometimes be necessary to query the package database using ghc-pkg for a specific installed package ID. At the moment, none of the commands support this, and I'd like to request comments on proposed ways of adding this functionality. Here are the proposals:
1. All command line modes stay the same, but anywhere a package ID was previously accepted, now we also accept an installed package ID. We distinguish the two by using the IPID parser from Cabal, and falling back the the package ID parser (assuming that version tags are not used, this is unambiguous). 2. Add a new flag --id which changes the meaning of a package ID field to be an installed package ID field. 3. Add new variants of all commands such as 'ghc-pkg unregister-id' which accept package IDs. 4. ... 5. Profit!! Cheers, Edward _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
