[Haskell] Cabal, Haddock, and the location of documentation

[Ian Lynagh]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 06:22:43PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 19:08 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> > 
> > Or do I have to patch Cabal? If so, what about adding just another
> > FilePath like docdir to Distribution.SimpleLocalBuildInfo and use
> > it for the documentation?
> 
> I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to follow the lead of autoconf here
> and have slightly finer grained control with respect to the kinds of
> files we're installing. Autoconf distinguishes docs (and various kinds
> of docs, html, ps, pdf, man etc) from the generic datadir.

See also:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/140

It would be great for this to get fixed, as I currently have to jump
through some hoops to get the docs where I want them in the Debian
packages.


Thanks
Ian