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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon phadej

backpack leaves cabal-docspec very confused

Open ekmett opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

as it says on the tin

ekmett avatar Feb 20 '21 10:02 ekmett

That is somewhat expected, and I don't have any ideas nor plans to fix this myself.

phadej avatar Feb 20 '21 10:02 phadej

One idea, which requires heavy development work, is to make ghci:s :browse and :doc amenable for machine consumption. Then cabal-docspec could :browse the modules (including re-exported ones) and find examples in :doc to test.

This is how Python's doctest works: by reflection, not by looking at the source files directly. (AFAIK).

To be clear, I won't work on the GHC part, that is my wish as tooling writer though.

phadej avatar Feb 21 '21 11:02 phadej

One idea, which requires heavy development work, is to make ghci:s :browse and :doc amenable for machine consumption. Then cabal-docspec could :browse the modules (including re-exported ones) and find examples in :doc to test.

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/15461 seems somewhat related.

sjakobi avatar Feb 22 '21 10:02 sjakobi