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Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/bin-package-db/bin-package-db.cabal')
| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/bin-package-db/bin-package-db.cabal | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/bin-package-db/bin-package-db.cabal b/libraries/bin-package-db/bin-package-db.cabal index e8b4fd45ee..0fcff0f1f4 100644 --- a/libraries/bin-package-db/bin-package-db.cabal +++ b/libraries/bin-package-db/bin-package-db.cabal @@ -3,7 +3,19 @@ version: 0.0.0.0 license: BSD3 maintainer: ghc-devs@haskell.org bug-reports: glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org -synopsis: A binary format for the package database +synopsis: The GHC compiler's view of the GHC package database format +description: This library is shared between GHC and ghc-pkg and is used by + GHC to read package databases. + . + It only deals with the subset of the package database that the + compiler cares about: modules paths etc and not package + metadata like description, authors etc. It is thus not a + library interface to ghc-pkg and is *not* suitable for + modifying GHC package databases. + . + The package database format and this library are constructed in + such a way that while ghc-pkg depends on Cabal, the GHC library + and program do not have to depend on Cabal. cabal-version: >=1.10 build-type: Simple @@ -23,8 +35,10 @@ Library exposed-modules: Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo.Binary + GHC.PackageDb build-depends: base >= 4 && < 5, - binary >= 0.5 && < 0.8, + binary >= 0.7 && < 0.8, + bytestring, directory, filepath, Cabal >= 1.20 && < 1.22 |