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cabal haddock <arbitrary package>
produces nothing
#9327
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cabal haddock
simply does not produce anything
This is on top of
The important words being within the project. If you have ideas on how to make the “Example:” section more clear, I am all ears! |
cabal haddock
simply does not produce anythingcabal haddock <arbitrary package>
does not produce anything
cabal haddock <arbitrary package>
does not produce anythingcabal haddock <arbitrary package>
produces nothing
Related discussion: Would be nice to clean up the help text and articulate a great deal firmer that we work against local packages rather than arbitrary ones. Ideally, I separate feature request may be filed to extend |
IMHO, it should work for arbitrary packages. I was developing something and the docs of a dependency were not on Hackage. With this feature I could simply do |
I think we should keep the scope of this issue narrow so it has a chance of being resolved within the next release. A feature request to extend the haddock command as you suggest would be welcome to be filed as a separate "enhancement" ticket. |
Describe the bug / To Reproduce
E.g.
Produces nothing and exits with 0. Might be because
text
is only a dependency? But I think it is not unreasonable to expect this to work. The--help
says:Expected behavior
Some documentation should be produced.
System information
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