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This project aims to create a simple library for automatic recompilation and reloading of modules into running Haskell applications. It aims to replace the old, very obsolete plugins package with a modern library built around the GHC-API.

There is currently a working Example.hs, but surely there are many things wrong.

Ultimately, this library needs to integrate with cabal and cabal sandboxes.

Your help is desperately needed!

This library is currently named 'plugins-ng' to indicate that it is the next generation of the plugins library. However, the name 'plugins' is misleading. 'plugin' implies that there is some sort of interface/API specified for writing plugins which can be used in an app. This library provides no such thing -- though it could be used by higher level libraries like 'web-plugins' to provide dynamic reloading capabilities. If you have a better name, please speak up!

The next step forward is to figure out how to use GHC API in combination with Cabal. We would like to be able to use cabal to fetch, install, and load libraries from hackage. Additionally, we want to be able to integrate with cabal sandboxes.

There are two related packages on hackage:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scion http://hackage.haskell.org/package/buildwrapper

These libraries do more than we need. But, hopefully than can serve as a good reference.

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