On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:36:58PM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 05:18:07PM -0800, Conal Elliott wrote: > > So now I have just a new pair of flags enable-use-packages & > > disable-use-packages, which control whether haddock gets > > automatically-generated --use-package flags. > > There's a similar (but simpler) problem with generating Haddock > documentation for HackageDB. The trouble is that --use-package is > half right: it gives the interface file you want, but the wrong URL for > cross-references. (And there's no way to override it, because haddock > doesn't know which package a --read-interface option relates to.) > > For HackageDB, I think the appropriate thing would be for Cabal to use > ghc-pkg to get the haddock-interfaces field (instead of asking haddock to > ask ghc-pkg for it), but for the user to be able to override the HTML URL > at configure time. For HackageDB, a suitable template would be > > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/$pkg/$pkgid.misc/doc/html > or > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/$pkg/latest.misc/doc/html
I've now implemented this (new option --html-location to setup haddock, rather than configure), and removed the --disable-use-packages and --enable-use-packages options. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
