ghc-6.10.2: The GHC APIContentsIndex
PackageConfig
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PackageId
The PackageConfig type: information about a package
Description
Package configuration information: essentially the interface to Cabal, with some utilities
Synopsis
mkPackageId :: PackageIdentifier -> PackageId
packageConfigId :: PackageConfig -> PackageId
unpackPackageId :: PackageId -> Maybe PackageIdentifier
type PackageConfig = InstalledPackageInfo_ ModuleName
InstalledPackageInfo_ (InstalledPackageInfo, package, license, copyright, maintainer, author, stability, homepage, pkgUrl, description, category, exposed, exposedModules, hiddenModules, importDirs, libraryDirs, hsLibraries, extraLibraries, extraGHCiLibraries, includeDirs, includes, depends, hugsOptions, ccOptions, ldOptions, frameworkDirs, frameworks, haddockInterfaces, haddockHTMLs)
display
Version (Version, versionBranch, versionTags)
PackageIdentifier (PackageIdentifier, pkgName, pkgVersion)
defaultPackageConfig :: PackageConfig
packageConfigToInstalledPackageInfo :: PackageConfig -> InstalledPackageInfo
installedPackageInfoToPackageConfig :: InstalledPackageInfo -> PackageConfig
Documentation

Mostly the compiler deals in terms of PackageNames, which don't have the version suffix. This is so that we don't need to know the version for the -package-name flag, or know the versions of wired-in packages like base & rts. Versions are confined to the package sub-system.

This means that in theory you could have multiple base packages installed (for example), and switch between them using -package/-hide-package.

A PackageId is a string of the form pkg>-<version.

PackageId
mkPackageId :: PackageIdentifier -> PackageId
Turn a Cabal PackageIdentifier into a GHC PackageId
packageConfigId :: PackageConfig -> PackageId
Get the GHC PackageId right out of a Cabalish PackageConfig
unpackPackageId :: PackageId -> Maybe PackageIdentifier
Try and interpret a GHC PackageId as a cabal PackageIdentifer. Returns Nothing if we could not parse it as such an object.
The PackageConfig type: information about a package
type PackageConfig = InstalledPackageInfo_ ModuleName
InstalledPackageInfo_ (InstalledPackageInfo, package, license, copyright, maintainer, author, stability, homepage, pkgUrl, description, category, exposed, exposedModules, hiddenModules, importDirs, libraryDirs, hsLibraries, extraLibraries, extraGHCiLibraries, includeDirs, includes, depends, hugsOptions, ccOptions, ldOptions, frameworkDirs, frameworks, haddockInterfaces, haddockHTMLs)
display
Version (Version, versionBranch, versionTags)
PackageIdentifier (PackageIdentifier, pkgName, pkgVersion)
defaultPackageConfig :: PackageConfig
packageConfigToInstalledPackageInfo :: PackageConfig -> InstalledPackageInfo
Turn a PackageConfig, which contains GHC ModuleNames into a Cabal specific InstalledPackageInfo which contains Cabal ModuleNames
installedPackageInfoToPackageConfig :: InstalledPackageInfo -> PackageConfig
Turn an InstalledPackageInfo, which contains Cabal ModuleNames into a GHC specific PackageConfig which contains GHC ModuleNames
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