patch applied (ghc): Change the representation of the package database

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 18:38 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 08:59:27AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > On 10/09/2009 21:16, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 05:02 -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >>
> >>>     - the binary package is now a boot package
> >>
> >> I hope it's not a registered package. We don't want to pre-empt the
> >> decision about including binary in the Haskell Platform.
> >
> > There are several such packages (haskeline, utf8-string, and now binary  
> > and bin-package-db).  I don't know how we handle the not-installing part  
> > - they all seem to be installed by make install.  Ian, what's the plan 
> > here?
> 
> The ghc package depends on bin-package-db, which in turn depends on
> binary, so we don't have much choice but to install them.

Arrg. The binary package authors (let alone anyone else) are not happy
with the package going into the platform in its current state.

In the worst case you can just bundle a copy of the binary code
privately since I presume it's not exposed in the ghc package's API.

Duncan