Looking at our current technology for building packages below ghc/libraries, I think that for each package there are 2 redundant files: package.conf.in and prologue.txt. If I see things correctly, almost all information is already in the foo.cabal files, so the question is: What are the plans for removing this redundancy? I think this has been discussed before, but I can't remember the outcome.
The background behind this: When adding or removing Cabal packages via RPM, one has to regenerate the Haddock "Contents" page and the "Index" pages to match the set of currently installed Cabal packages. This is similar to what has to be done for info pages via install-info. To do this, one needs the package descriptions, which should be taken from the "description" fields of the installed Cabal packages (note that these should contain Haddock markup then). But currently foo.cabal and package.conf.in are very out-of-sync for most packages (empty/different descriptions, even differing package versions (fgl!), bug reports due to inconsistent list of modules, etc.). Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
