ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:	8.8.3
LTS Haskell 16.11:	8.8.3
Stackage Nightly 2023-12-08:	9.6.3
Latest on Hackage:	9.8.1

See all snapshots ghc-boot appears in

BSD-3-Clause licensed

Maintained by ghc-devs@haskell.org

This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-boot-8.8.3@sha256:dbc503b7dfd152054e1eb99e3733e2e89af7e9f4d3f5cb9a6e7e9163867e995d,1820

Module documentation for 8.8.3

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

base, binary, bytestring, directory, filepath, ghc-boot-th

Used by 6 packages in lts-16.11(full list with versions):

clash-ghc, ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, hint, ihaskell

This library is shared between GHC, ghc-pkg, and other boot libraries.

A note about GHC.PackageDb: 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.

Changes

8.0.1 May 2016

Bundled with GHC 8.0.1
Initial version