[Haskell-cafe] Hackage/Cabal/Haddock question

[David Waern]

2008/11/21 Robert Greayer <robgreayer at yahoo.com>:
> How does Hackage run 'haddock' on uploaded packages?  I had assumed it directly runs the cabal 'haddock' target, e.g.
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> runhaskell Setup.hs haddock
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> but it appears to perhaps be more complex than that.
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> Some backrgound --
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> haddock doesn't seem to like quasiquotation - running haddock on a source tree that includes quasiquotations eventually results in:
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> haddock: internal Haddock or GHC error: Maybe.fromJust: Nothing
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> (eliminating the code that contains [$xxx|....] constructs gets rid of the error.)

It's true that haddock can't handle qasi-quotation. I've filed a bug ticket:

  http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/66

David