Re: #16380: HPC's CLI is awkward

#16380: HPC's CLI is awkward
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        Reporter:  MaxGabriel        |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
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Comment (by bgamari):

 Indeed HPC could use some love. It would be great if someone could offer
 to look after it. It's just a standard (albeit a bit dated) Haskell
 executable so anyone able to use GHC should be able pick it up without any
 trouble.

 Alternatively, I have long wondered whether GHC should even be in the
 business of offering tools like `hpc` and `hp2ps`. I rather wonder whether
 we might not be better off simply doing a better job of documenting the
 formats and interfaces exposed by GHC and leave the tooling to be provided
 by Hackage packages. In the case of `hp2ps`, this may already be the case:
 I nearly always use `hp2pretty` instead of `hp2ps` and I suspect I'm not
 the only one.

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16380#comment:1>