#674: Findable extra documentation ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: jbapple | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by duncan): Note for point 2, this relies on us knowing if documentation files are installed and if so where. Currently `cabal info pkgname` will report the location of documentation if the `haddock-html` field points to a directory that exists. This is only appropriate for html documentation. One option to support more general documentation would be via cabal tracking files for packages it installs, however that would not help for packages installed with ghc or via the system package manager. Another thing to note here is that the fact that we track whether or not haddock docs are installed via ghc-pkg. This itself is a bit of an oddity. It is not information that ghc itself needs and nor is it package meta- data (like the author or description). It's just auxiliary information about aspects of the installed package. It's sort of package management information. It's not clear this special case makes sense. Probably we should allow more general package information (e.g. location of various kinds of docs) or we should not track haddock information in the ghc-pkg registration information at all. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/674#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects