#206: cabal-install should be able to generate haddock docs ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.4 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by guest): * cc: avatar@hot.ee (removed) * cc: gwern0@gmail.com (added) Comment: FWIW, I think Daniel's idea isn't quite right. In an ideal world, we could do configure && build && haddock && install - but lots of packages might not work. They may need 2.0 Haddock instead of 0.8; they may use the -- ^ syntax for a 'type' declaration (a known regression in Haddock 2.0, and a fatal bug); or something else entirely. So documentation could *easily* fail to build even when the library/executable works perfectly. A better approach would be to build and install, and if that works, go back and try to build Haddocks in a way non-prejudical to the overall build process. (In my shell scripts, it looks something like "configure && build && install; haddock && install".) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/206#comment:6 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects