[Haskell-cafe] Hackage package "synopsis" sections

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2014-09-16 17:58, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> Also Cabal problem but you raise an important issue. Cabal's synopsis
> parsing sucks so if it could instead read from a separate file without
> these weird limitations, that'd be a big improvement in itself and a lot
> easier to automated if one wants to.

+1

Personally, I don't care whether it's markdown or Haddock(*), but having
the ability to have the Description (and/or synopsis) in a separate file
would be a definite improvement, IMO. The layering of the .cabal file
format rules on top of the Haddock ones is weird and annoying in
practice (extra indentation, a single . for empty lines, etc) and it
would be good to be rid of those, at least.

Regards,

(*) Both equally misguided/flawed in my opinion, but whatevs. It's what
people are using.