On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 04:22:14PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
I'm disinclined to add a cabal hook for this. Hooks are an unstable, discouraged way to extend the build system (and they're considered a security risk on hackage). The main reason not to use hooks is that someone with a slightly different cabal will not be able to build xmonad at all -- as the hooks api's won't match.
We are actually adding a hook for the 'runhaskell Setup haddock' target, that is not affecting the build process anyhow. I submitted a bug report to the cabal system, since I think there's an agreement that binaries and libraries should have the same treatment with regard to documentation generation. We will see. For the time being the patch can be used by those who want a good looking html first page. It does nothing more after all. andrea