#1720: 6.8.0.20070917 Haddock links use absolute paths with no "file://" prefix
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 6.8.1
Component: None | Version: 6.8
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Os: Windows | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown |
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Comment (by duncan):
We could blame either Cabal or Haddock.
When using haddock's --use-package, haddock calls ghc-pkg to find the
location of the dependent packages docs. It currently treats this as if it
were already a valid url, which currently is never the case. It is
currently always an absolute directory path (or empty) so haddock should
convert it into a file:// url, including doing escaping.
For the --read-interface it's less clear what to do. It can accept a http
url so by extension we should really be passing valid file:// urls too. So
then by that reasoning Cabal should duplicate the code to make a valid url
from the output of ghc-pkg field $pkg haddock-html.
Why have we never noticed this before? The ghc build system and haddock
have been doing this for ages.
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