That would be a sufficient "horrible backdoor" for me. :) -Edward
> On Nov 11, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Richard Eisenberg <e...@cis.upenn.edu> wrote: > > >> On Nov 11, 2015, at 2:25 PM, Edward Kmett <ekm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As a data point, in a couple of packages I wind up forced into using >> mkNameG_v and mkNameG_tc in order to avoid incurring a dependency on a >> stage2 compiler today. Removing them would force me to drop support for >> stage1-only platforms offered by some linux distributions. >> >> If you're going to drop support for it, please consider offering me some >> horrible back door to get at the functionality that I can't currently >> replace by other means. > > I've had to use these functions, too, mostly because TH didn't export the > functionality I needed. But this wouldn't be problematic in the new scenario: > just depend on the ghc package instead of template-haskell. Then you can do > whatever you like. :) > >> -Edward > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
