QC dependency on the ghc package

[Nick Smallbone]

Hi Duncan (and Simon),

That sounds like a good plan. I can update QuickCheck, but which
version of GHC should I check for in the CPP stuff?

Nick

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> QuickCheck developers,
>
> We noticed that QC is currently being forced to depend on the ghc api
> package so that it can get access to the exception type that ghci
> generates in response to the user pressing control-C.
>
> (See Test/QuickCheck/Exception.hs, the stuff with GHC_INTERRUPT)
>
> It is rather annoying that QC depends on the ghc api package. In
> particular it means Cabal effectively cannot use QC for its own
> testsuite. This is because QC depends on the ghc package, which in turn
> depends on Cabal. So if we want to link a new Cabal lib with QC, then we
> also end up with an old Cabal lib linked in too and things start going
> wrong. Generally, things depending on the ghc package unnecessarily is a
> pain for sane package management (especially for libs as commonly used
> as QC).
>
> The solution is that Simon will switch ghci to use the UserInterrupt
> exception from Control.Exception.
>
> We should change QC to use yet more CPP so that with the suitable ghc
> version it no longer imports Panic(GhcException(Interrupted)) and does
> not depend on the ghc api package.
>
> Duncan
>
>
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