ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:8.6.5
LTS Haskell 22.43:9.6.6
Stackage Nightly 2025-04-30:9.10.1
Latest on Hackage:9.12.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-boot-8.6.5@sha256:8b608d2f36aad99a37a7d1b70319d43195128de6485b15fa7d4638b2942ce2a2,1772

Module documentation for 8.6.5

Used by 6 packages in nightly-2019-08-07(full list with versions):
ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, hint, hsdev, 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

8.6.1 August 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.6.1

8.4.2 April 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.4.2

8.4.1 March 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.4.1

8.2.2 November 2018

  • Bundled with GHC 8.2.2

8.2.1 July 2017

  • Bundled with GHC 8.2.1

8.0.2 January 2017

  • Bundled with GHC 8.0.2

8.0.1 May 2016

  • Bundled with GHC 8.0.1

  • Initial version