haskell/haskell-ide-engine

Add a command line param for the hoogle database location

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#912 opened on Oct 28, 2018

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Description

#887 introduced setting it via the environment variable "HIE_HOOGLE_DATABASE".

Create a command line parameter for this as an alternative mechanism.

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Research direction
Look at how the environment variable HIE HOOGLE DATABASE is used in the codebase and add a corresponding command line flag, following the existing argument parsing pattern.
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cli
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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Haskellcommand line parsing
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65