Ctags generation failing silently

[ahansen90]

When I try pulp docs -- --format ctags, I get the following output:

* Generating documentation in /home/alex/ctags-test
* Documentation generated.

However, nothing is generated, not in generated-docs or anywhere else. If I just run pulp docs, it works correctly (generating markdown files in generated-docs).

Commands used to test:

• mkdir ctags-test && cd ctags-test
• pulp init
• bower install
• pulp docs -- --format ctags

With this same test project, I can do purs docs --format ctags bower_components/**/*.purs src/**/*.purs and it will correctly output the ctags to standard output, so I don't think this is an issue with purs.

pulp version: 12.3.1, purs version: 0.12.2

[hdgarrood]

Yeah, the design here needs reconsidering (perhaps at the compiler level too). pulp docs assumes that any documentation generated by purs docs is written to a file, so it ignores any data which appears on stdout. As you probably realised, you’ll just need to call purs docs directly for now.

[hdgarrood]

@asturtz2 do you think it would be sensible if purs docs --format [ctags|etags] wrote to a file [TAGS|tags] by default instead of writing to stdout?

[hdgarrood]

Closing this as we're going to address it in the compiler.