hie-compat: HIE files for GHC 8.6 and other HIE file backports

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Backports for HIE files to GHC 8.6, along with a few other backports of HIE file related fixes for ghcide. THIS DOES NOT LET YOU READ HIE FILES WITH MISMATCHED VERSIONS OF GHC


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Dependencies array, base (<4.17), bytestring, containers, directory, filepath, ghc, ghc-boot, transformers [details]
License Apache-2.0
Author Zubin Duggal
Maintainer zubin.duggal@gmail.com
Category Development
Uploaded by jneira at 2022-01-29T12:29:53Z
Distributions Arch:0.3.0.0, NixOS:0.3.1.2
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hie-compat

Mainly a backport of HIE Files for ghc 8.6, along with a few other backports of fixes useful for ghcide

Fully compatible with .hie files natively produced by versions of GHC that support them.

THIS DOES NOT LET YOU READ HIE FILES WITH MISMATCHED VERSIONS OF GHC

Backports included:

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4037

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4068

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/3199

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/2578