Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-08-08 Thread Henning Thielemann
On 24.07.2011 13:11, Joris Putcuyps wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:25:53 -0700 Greg Weber wrote: [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hamlet The cabal file should be compact, and quite often the description field is very lengthy. I would like it alot if I could reference a README.??? (pand

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 24 July 2011 21:11, Joris Putcuyps wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:25:53 -0700 > Greg Weber wrote: > >> I think the haddock description field is a great barrior to >> documentation. I don't want to clutter my cabal file with lengthy >> documentation. Michael Snoyberg and I could not figure out

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-24 Thread Joris Putcuyps
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:25:53 -0700 Greg Weber wrote: > I think the haddock description field is a great barrior to > documentation. I don't want to clutter my cabal file with lengthy > documentation. Michael Snoyberg and I could not figure out how to > document the Hamlet syntax because there is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-23 Thread Greg Weber
I think the haddock description field is a great barrior to documentation. I don't want to clutter my cabal file with lengthy documentation. Michael Snoyberg and I could not figure out how to document the Hamlet syntax because there is no way (as far as I know) to have literal unescaped, uninterpre

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-23 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 23 July 2011 21:33, Joris Putcuyps wrote: > About your first point, I'm aware of that. It would have been > nice if .cabal and haddock used markdown, this is very popular, thanks > to pandoc. Then generating html, pdf, texinfo, ... would be very easy. This has been suggested before, e.g. http:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-23 Thread Joris Putcuyps
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:47:18 + Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > On 23 July 2011 10:35, Joris Putcuyps > wrote: > > Hello everybody > > > > I'm looking for a way to avoid having two files with almost the same > > information on github: README.markdown and package.cabal. > > > > As far as I can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-23 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi Joris, not exactly what you are think about, but still maybe somewhat related. I thought it would be nice to have support for literate Haskell in README files (say README.lhs) on GitHub. I've done something similar for WAI[1], using sed to transform it to markdown, native support support for RE

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-23 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 23 July 2011 10:35, Joris Putcuyps wrote: > Hello everybody > > I'm looking for a way to avoid having two files with almost the same > information on github: README.markdown and package.cabal. > > As far as I can tell, a new github README parser[1] can be written, > but it only supports README

[Haskell-cafe] Github support for cabal files

2011-07-23 Thread Joris Putcuyps
Hello everybody I'm looking for a way to avoid having two files with almost the same information on github: README.markdown and package.cabal. As far as I can tell, a new github README parser[1] can be written, but it only supports README files with different extensions and requires either ruby o