Alex/Happy/Haddock and Cabal

Sven Panne sven.panne at aedion.de
Sun Sep 2 09:21:06 EDT 2007


[ Not the correct mailing list, but cvs-all bounced my previous mail ]

FYI: I've just hacked the Setup scripts for Alex/Happy/Haddock to death so 
these tools can now be built with a bleeding-edge GHC. But: I've done this in 
a quick and dirty way which will *definitely* break things for everything 
else (older GHCs, Hugs, etc.), some Cabal gurus should definitely improve 
this.

To the Cabal people: Please don't forget to update those scripts and .cabal 
files when the Cabal API/syntax changes once again.

Apart from that, of course I had to update the package dependencies, tracking 
the recent changes caused by the "Big Base Breakage" (tm)... :-P Again: 
Please fix the tools when the libs change.

And a final request (once again): *Never* check in DocBook stuff without 
building the docs first and/or doing a "make validate". It's not that 
complicated, and even XEmacs can tell you immediately when things don't 
validate...

Cheers,
   S.



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