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Show package description on hover for package dependencies #4417
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I am currently working on this and #4416. As a first approximation we are going to call out to As a reference for the |
My current impl simply dumps the Example output for * text (library) Synopsis: An efficient packed Unicode text type. Versions available: 0.11.3.1, 1.1.1.4, 1.2.4.1, 1.2.5.0, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1 (and 70 others) Versions installed: 2.0.2 Homepage: https://github.com/haskell/text Bug reports: https://github.com/haskell/text/issues Description: An efficient packed, immutable Unicode text type (both strict and lazy). |
It would be nice to be able to see a description of a dependency when hovering over that dependency in a cabal file.
Packages already have such a description field, the tricky part of this issue is to extract a given package's description from the correct package database.
We should already have access to the package database, but we would need to be able to decide which package database corresponds to the current cabal file.
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