Could autodoc use haddock.ghc? If it does, more haddock docs will work. Also, why do some packages not have a build log? For instance, http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/phooey-1.2 .
- Conal On 7/22/07, Sascha Böhme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > HackageDB [1] now contains automatically generated build logs for some > packages, most of them also have automatically generated Haddock > documentation. This is, for now, the result of my Google Summer of Code > project. > > The progress of the project can be followed from [2], the sources and > some statistics can be found at [3]. For now, 104 packages out of 316 > can be successfully processed resulting in proper Haddock documentation > and a build log. Processing a packages includes configuring, building, > testing and installing, besides running Haddock. Also, Hoogle entries > are generated, but not used so far. Note that 31 packages of HackageDB > caused errors while building or running Haddock, their build logs are > also available at [1]. Whenever a package cannot be build or Haddock > returns with an error, all packages depending on that one package won't > be processed either. > > The autodoc tool to automatically process packages will be run regularly > (daily, every second day) to mirror modifications of HackageDB. > > Besides some problems and several missing libraries on the test system > (which I am about to fix), there are open questions from my side: > > How should the generated hoogle entries be used? > > Should build logs of erroneous packages be mailed to the package > maintainer? > > Are there more feature requests? > > Concerning the last question, there is already a list of ideas at [4], > but maybe more ideas or requests are now arising. > > During the remaining time, I will work on adding a search function to > HackageDB which will allow to find packages based on several different > keys drawn from a package's description. A detailed plan will be given > at [2] later this week. I am open for any requests or ideas on this > subject, as well, of course. > > Thanks, > Sascha > > > [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html > [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/SoC2007Hackage > [3] http://community.haskell.org/~sboehme/index.html > [4] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageToDo > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >
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