I've been working on some haddock-related Cabal tweaks and a "make" include
file called "cabal-make", which manages syntax coloring (vis hscolour) with
links from the haddock docs, web-based links to other libraries, and
wiki-based user comments. It's ready to release for others' use except for
one problem (as mentioned below). The --haddock-args flag ends up turning
my forward slashes into backslashes (on my WinXP machine), so all of the web
links are broken. I'd appreciate suggestions about this problem.
You can find an example doc generated by cabal-make (a previous
implementation that didn't quite fit cabal) at
http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/TV/doc/html/Interface-TV-Output.html .
Suggestions welcome.
- Conal
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From: Conal Elliott
Hi Conel. Thanks for this! It sounds like the ideas from your makefile could be used for Hackage for generating nice Haddock :)
There is a general meachanism for adding --foo-args for each Program that cabal knows about; can you use this meachanism to add --foo-arg as well, instead of special-casing for haddock?
If you do that, can you make the help output not suck? Currently it does something like this:
--ar-args=ARGS give the args to ar --haddock-args=ARGS give the args to haddock --ld-args=ARGS give the args to ld --pfesetup-args=ARGS give the args to pfesetup --ranlib-args=ARGS give the args to ranlib --runghc-args=ARGS give the args to runghc --runhugs-args=ARGS give the args to runhugs --tar-args=ARGS give the args to tar
it would be nice to concerve lines with sometthing like this:
--ar-arg=ARG --ar-args=ARGS give the arg or args to ar --haddock-arg=ARG --haddock-args=ARGS give the arg or args to haddock etc
The patch you sent seemed like an empty file to me. Maybe I'm just being nihilistic ;)
peace,
isaac