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+name:                cabal-helper
+version:             0.1.0.0
+synopsis:            Simple interface to Cabal's configuration state used by ghc-mod
+description:
+    CabalHelper provides a library which wraps the internal use of executables
+    to lift the restrictions imposed by linking against versions of GHC before
+    @7.10@.
+
+    CabalHelper uses a wrapper executable to compile the actual cabal-helper
+    executable at runtime while linking against an arbitrary version of
+    Cabal. This runtime-compiled helper executable is then used to extract
+    various bits and peices from Cabal on disk state (dist/setup-config) written
+    by it's configure command.
+
+    In addition to this the wrapper executable also supports installing any
+    version of Cabal from hackage in case it cannot be found in any available
+    package database. The wrapper installs these instances of the Cabal library
+    into a private package database so as to not interfere with the user's
+    packages.
+
+    Furthermore the wrapper supports one special case namely reading a state
+    file for Cabal itself. This is needed as Cabal compiles it's Setup.hs using
+    itself and not using any version of Cabal installed in any package database.
+
+    Currently CabalHelper supports @Cabal >= 1.16@.
+
+license:             AGPL-3
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org>
+maintainer:          dxld@darkboxed.org
+category:            Distribution
+build-type:          Simple
+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: https://github.com/DanielG/cabal-helper.git
+
+library
+  exposed-modules:     Distribution.Helper
+  build-depends:       base >= 4.5 && < 5
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
+  Build-Depends:       base
+                     , data-default
+                     , directory
+                     , filepath
+                     , transformers
+                     , mtl
+                     , process
+
+
+Executable cabal-helper-wrapper
+  Default-Language:    Haskell2010
+  Other-Extensions:    TemplateHaskell
+  Main-Is:             CabalHelper/Wrapper.hs
+  Other-Modules:       Paths_cabal_helper
+  GHC-Options:         -Wall
+  X-Install-Target:    $libexecdir
+  Build-Depends:       base >= 4.5 && < 5
+                     , bytestring
+                     , Cabal
+                     , directory
+                     , filepath
+                     , process
+                     , transformers
+                     , template-haskell
+                     , temporary