Ivan Malison

@dreamcat4 Where areyou keeping the changes you have made?

@dreamcat4 Ping. Where are you keeping these changes?

@wz1000 Or maybe a bug should be filed against ghc to make this possible? What exactly is the issue?

> This isn't a bug with ghc, as ghc doesn't know about the source files of installed packages, it just cares about the .hi and .o files. Yeah, I figured...

> This should be the expected behavior, as in many other languages (dependency source files are read-only). Yeah, agreed, I'm not sure this would really surprise many people. If you're...

> I don't see a way to get GHC to give us this info. As things currently stand, right? Or is there a major technical limitation you have found that...

@wz1000 Hey. I tried to reach you on irc but it seemed that you were afk. here's what I wrote: wz1000: Hey, I've heard that you are working on some...

@wz1000 @alanz What is the status of this?

Looks like there is a status update here: https://gist.github.com/wz1000/5ed4ddd0d3e96d6bc75e095cef95363d

@alanz So it sounds like .hie file output won't ever be backported to old versions of ghc? How does hie plan to handle that?