Re: Can the Haddock library expose more (then just reading interface files)?

Hi David, Leksah calls createInterfaces and uses the returned Interface, which means to analyse the HsDecl structure. Leksah wants to know the type, source position and comment for every exported item. If you can't expose the modules we need, you will find a haddock-leksah package on hackage soon, with the original haddock, and only the cabal file with the added exposed modules. That would be ugly. Jürgen Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 19:13 +0100 schrieb David Waern:

2009/12/19 jutaro :

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I've ported part of the Leksah metadata collection to use Haddock. But, now it comes, I have not created another backend, but would like to use Haddock as a library and call "createInterface" directly. So I need to change the exposed-modules section of haddock.cabal file to include: "Haddock.Types Haddock.Interface Haddock.Options" Would that be an acceptable patch for the general release, or do you feel it to be too unhygienic or something?

There has been some discussion about introducing a full-information format that haddock can produce that tools can read. It's not something anyone is working on at the moment, though. So while waiting for something like that, we could try to work something out. Exporting more of Haddock to the outside is a possibility. It would be interesting to know which parts of the Interface structure that you're after.

David