Re: Hackage rocks

2007-08-04 Thread ross
Quoting Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * haddock docs not building. This is very common. The most common parse problem is un-escaped / chars. This seems to trip people up a lot. I wonder if we could make haddock's parser grok this better? For example most uses

hacking cabal is too hard...

2007-08-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
so what can we do about it? Some barriers to entry: 1. reporting bugs requires logging in, many people still miss this. 2. bug reports get ignored (which is disheartening to users) because... 3. bug reports do not get reported to this list (like ghc ones get

Re: Cabal and testing

2007-08-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 17:54 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi I'm just about to hook up Cabal for doing some testing, so I started with the obvious template: import Distribution.Simple main = defaultMainWithHooks defaultUserHooks{runTests=test} test :: Args - Bool - PackageDescription -