Re: bit rotting of Haddock

On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 02:09:28PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:58:13PM +0200, Simon Hengel wrote:
> > 
> > The library component of Haddock is still not build with GHC.  Would it
> > be sane to build/include the library component of Haddock with GHC, so
> > that there is only one "build flavor" of Haddock?
> 
> I suspect the current setup predates the ability for executables to
> depend on libraries in the same Cabal package. I'd suggest that the
> haddock executable should be changed to depend on the haddock library,
> and as far as I can see there is no reason why that should cause
> problems in the GHC build.

Ok, I just changed that [1] (on branch ghc-7.6).  Now the executable
depends on the library.  I'm validating it right now; if there are no
issues I'll push it.

Cheers,
Simon

[1] https://github.com/sol/haddock/commit/de9821b35d06b414a0bac492a3a7773ace711e91