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Implement worker/wrapper split, support multiple GHC versions #615
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We've had this limitation for quite a while and people seemed not to be too
bothered by it, but with the appearance of Stack this quickly escalated because
now people can switch between different GHC versions without even knowing, since
Stack handles this for them.
The problem right now is that ghc-mod links against ghc (the library) and this
needs to be the same version as ghc (the executable) the user is using
otherwise it's just not going to work.
There are many possible solutions to this, unfortunately all the easier ones
involve pushing knowledge about ghc-mod's concept of project types into the
frontends and keeping that in sync in the future which is probably not a good
idea.
One of the more sensible ways to solve this would be to split ghc-mod into two
packages:
- one which is essentially what we have now: the library, and the main
 ghc-mod executable that links toghc(the library), let's call that one
 ghc-mod-main
- and the other package which is just the ghc-mod/ghc-modi executables which
 don't depend onghc(the library) at all and only check which GHC version
 we're using and compile the former package for that ghc at runtime (much like
 what cabal-helper does for the Cabal library which seems to be working really
 well).
I don't think I will have time to work on this any time soon but if anyone wants
to give this a shot I'd be happy to point them in the right direction.