[Hackage] #849: [PATCH] Store licenses in text files instead of code.

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#849: [PATCH] Store licenses in text files instead of code.
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  Reporter:  refold              |        Owner:      
      Type:  enhancement         |       Status:  new 
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:      
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  HEAD
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:      
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:      
  Platform:                      |  
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Comment(by duncan):

 Yeah, something like that. I was thinking of a slightly more general
 interface that would allow other/different implementation options on
 different machines or in different contexts (e.g. debug builds).

 Something like, Resources_$packagename.hs:
 {{{
 openResource :: String -> IO Handle
 }}}
 So it's very much like the current Paths_$packagename.hs:
 {{{
 getDataFileName :: FilePath -> IO FilePath
 }}}
 but it combines locating with opening the resource as an ordinary
 `Handle`. Doing IO to perform the open and providing a `Handle` gives us
 quite a lot of implementation options. We can still do the ELF `foreign
 import ccall "&"` stuff or we can use ordinary files (e.g. for debug and I
 think MacOSX bundles use separate files too), and for Win32 we can use the
 Windows resource APIs. This relies on the new base-4 `Handle` stuff which
 lets you create custom handle implementations.

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