[Agda] Agda environment: Hackage, Hoogle, Haddock, Cabal?

[Nicolas Pouillard]

Quoting Tillmann Rendel (2014-03-24 22:02:48)
> Hi,

Hi all,

> Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> > Are there plans to assimilate tools with functionality of Hackage,
> > Hoogle, Haddock and Cabal into the Agda environment?
> 
> This would be great!
> 
> Maybe a first step would be to define a notion of "Agda package" that 
> consists of a bunch of agda files. The goal would be to say:
> 
>    agda --package stdlib Main.agda
> 
> instead of
> 
>    agda -i$HOME/agda-lib/src -i. Main.agda
> 
> This is intentionally a very modest goal, but I think it would be a step 
> in a good direction.

Speaking of such a modest goal here my attempt at providing a *very modest*
answer for exactly this need:

  https://github.com/np/agda-pkg/blob/master/agda-pkg

As you can see this is a shell script of ~150 lines. It is by no mean a
definite design or implementation but it follows from the KISS principle
(used for Arch Linux packaging for instance).

Moreover, my feeling about reusing Cabal is: if one manages to reuse it
at a negligible cost then fine, otherwise I see no reason to stick with
such an infrastructure which IHMO over-engineered.

Best regards,
-- NP