Daniel Gröber (dxld)

[WIP] Port to cabal-helper-1.0 (git)

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I'm working on fleshing out the cabal-helper-1.0 API, figured I should see how bad I broke things using the old API so I decided to give porting this project a...

Integrate company-ghc into ghc-mod

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Hey, this looks really awesome, adding a company backend for ghc-mod has been on my TODO list for ages now, looks like you did it better than I could have...

1) We should try to recompile the runtime-main exe if the cached one fails to exec. It could be that the user upgraded their distribution and older soversions baked into...

See #40 and related discussion. Downloading the release tarball and latest cabal metadata using a HTTP library or wget/curl shouldn't be very hard to implement.

We use `localPkgDescr` in a couple of places, we probably shouldn't. See: - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-2.0.0.2/docs/Distribution-Types-LocalBuildInfo.html#v:localPkgDescr, - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-2.0.0.2/docs/Distribution-Types-HookedBuildInfo.html#t:HookedBuildInfo and - haskell/cabal#3606.

Transition to using cabal-install's show-buid-info (or similar)

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See here: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2771

See https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod/issues/725#issuecomment-171147068

[](https://gitlab.com/dxld/ghc-mod/commits/move-exe-specific-types) Other candidates: - `Expression`? - `ModuleName`?

For #615 Still need to add support for GHC version autodetection in the new `ghc-mod` wrapper.