Ashley Yakeley writes:

I've just started using Cabal, for my time library implementation (http://semantic.org/TimeLib/).

Cool!

1. If I do "runghc Setup.hs haddock" and then "runghc Setup.hs install", the documentation doesn't appear to get installed anywhere.

2. Likewise, "runghc Setup.hs clean" doesn't delete the documentation. I had expected it to delete the whole dist directory.

Hm. Sounds like a bug; the "haddock" command was added kinda late in the game. You can always implement a workaround in your Setup.lhs file with UserHooks, but then you'd have to watch out for new versions of cabal that fix this behavior.

3. There ought to be a mechanism for including tests. Something like "runghc Setup.hs check". Right now I have two tests that are executables that are run and the output compared to a reference output file (and another test that must be verified manually). But perhaps this is difficult.

I just pushed a fix to the CVS and darcs repos where if you run ./setup test, it'll execute the runTest function in UserHooks, which can do whatever you want it to do. Unfortunitely, I don't remember what the "bool" there is supposed to be, and I had forgotten to add this command earlier, so something here is definitely going to change before a release, but if you want to start using this for convinience, go ahead :) Also, should it be ./setup test? ./setup check? peace, isaac