[Henning Thielemann] Re: Cabal: Improve Haddock support

I might get a chance to look at this tonight :)

Anyone else is welcome to volunteer.

peace,

  isaac

From: Henning Thielemann <lemming <at> henning-thielemann.de>
Subject: Re: Cabal: Improve Haddock support
Date: 2006-06-12 10:46:56 GMT

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> I've started hacking on Distribution/Simple in order to improve the haddock 
> support. I do now pass two more things to haddock: The --dump-interface 
> option, which generates the .haddock files which are needed by other haddock 
> documentation that refers to this one, and the --use-package option for 
> linking haddock to existing documentation. However, I have noticed that Cabal 
> does not install haddock documentation so far. Thus I cannot link to 
> documentation of custom Cabal packages, yet. I see the problem of finding an 
> appropriate path for installed documentation. I will add some checks for 
> common documentation paths on Linux in the configure phase.