Ghc Api conversion guide?

[Thomas Schilling]

Yes, I am working on something like this, but ATM I am travelling, so
it will get delayed a bit.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Claus Reinke <claus.reinke at talk21.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Is there a document describing what people have to do
> to convert their Ghc Api client code to the new Api?
>
> The project page
>
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GhcApiStatus
>
> is already out of date (at least, I couldn't find a withGhc)
> and the modifications have of course invalidated any and
> all Ghc Api documentation examples and client code out there (the related
> docs section links to some of them, at
> least Haskell wiki and Ghc commentary should be checked
> and updated?).
>
> Since you have some recent experience with the conversion,
> and the new Api is part of the upcoming Ghc release, it would be a good time
> to write it all down, so that users of the new release won't be left in the
> dark (*). This might also help to flush out any residual issues (eg, runGhc;
> why are the flag strings
> for parseDynamicFlags suddenly 'Located String's, should
> there be a 'dynamicFlagLoc' to match? are all necessary utils re-exported
> from GHC.hs, such as Located, or liftIO?).
>
> Claus
>
> (*) use the source, Luke!-)
>
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