Integrating Cabal, Haddock, HsColour

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 03:52:08 EDT 2007


Roberto Zunino wrote:
> I've just extended Cabal so to generate docs with links to highlighted
> sources. Now
> 
> ./Setup configure
> ./Setup haddock --link-to-hscolour
> ./Setup hscolour --css my_own_stylesheet.css
> 
> generates HTML as this one: (run on Cabal itself)
> 
> http://www.di.unipi.it/~zunino/tmp/dist/doc/html/Cabal/Distribution-Program.html#v%3AwithProgramFlag
> 
> Click on the "Source" links on the right. You will be sent to the exact
> line. The whole Cabal docs+sources are online. Colours have been chosen
> to match my emacs configuration :-P .
> 
> This relies on a couple of minor tweaks to Haddock and HsColour which I
> darcs-sent this morning to the authors.
> 
> Comments are welcome.
> 
> - Is this worth including in the next Cabal version?

Looks really nice!  (BTW, cabal-devel at haskell.org is a better place to discuss 
Cabal improvements).

I'm happy for it to go in.

> - Are the options above good choices?

I'd make 'Setup haddock --hscolour' do both steps.

> - Is the directory tree OK? Currently Haddock creates (under dist/doc/html)

Looks fine.

Cheers,
	Simon


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