On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Nicolas Pouillard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Derive is very fragile in as a standalone tool (I had to tune imports
>> and a few other things),
>> so re-deriving is a bit of an arcane process, and is therefore not
>> integrated with the build.
>> the template-haskell backend is out of the question (for the moment)
>> because it requires to
>> use the same version of bytestring as GHC. This might be ok when the
>> Haskell Platform is
>> done.
>
> I agree that a TH backend would better integrate, however people have to
> concentrate on a tool for deriving custom things not dozen.

I meant that the Data.Derive package has a TH backend ready for use.

> BTW have
> you tried DrIFT ?

A long time ago; before Binary was introduced. I choose Derive because it
seems better supported.

Cheers,
JP.

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