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haskell/hoogle.nix: make an empty packages list possible #20619

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Building hoogle environments with an empty list of packages threw a built-time
error. This was particularly confusing when giving e.g. (hps: [hps.Cabal])
which, since Cabal is set to null (because it’s a distribution package),
would have lead to the same error as an empty list.

It was not useful to throw an error at all, because sometimes one only wants to
build an environment for the distribution packages. We switch to displaying a
warning (because it might be that the user made a mistake).

  • tested with an empty list
  • tested with a non-empty list

cc @peti @cstrahan

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@@ -51,21 +51,19 @@ let
else writeText "ghcjs-prologue.txt" ''
This index includes documentation for many Haskell modules.
'';

docPackages = (lib.closePropagation packages);
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I suppose those brackets are no longer necessary.

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peti commented Nov 21, 2016

I'm not fond of the warning. If we consider [] a valid input, then the expression should just work -- no warnings, nothing. If we consider [] an invalid input, then the expression should throw an error at the time of evaluation.

@Profpatsch Profpatsch force-pushed the ghcWithHoogle-empty-packagelist branch from 41b9440 to 8b68e0e Compare November 21, 2016 21:25
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You are right. I also noticed ghc.ghc as default value doesn’t make any sense (for one because it doesn’t even exist). Fixed.

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peti commented Nov 23, 2016

Very cool. Once #20619 (comment) is addressed, I'd be happy to merge.

Building hoogle environments with an empty list of packages threw a built-time
error. This was particularly confusing when giving e.g. `(hps: [hps.Cabal])`
which, since `Cabal` is set to `null` (because it’s a distribution package),
would have lead to the same error as an empty list.

It was not useful to throw an error at all, because sometimes one only wants to
build an environment for the distribution packages; also the default value for
packages wasn’t even a valid value, so it is removed.
@Profpatsch Profpatsch force-pushed the ghcWithHoogle-empty-packagelist branch from 8b68e0e to b8a69aa Compare November 24, 2016 11:32
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Right, fixed.

@peti peti merged commit baea6a8 into NixOS:master Nov 25, 2016
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