nixos, lib: implement relatedPackages option

This allows one to specify "related packages" in NixOS that get rendered into
the configuration.nix(5) man page. The interface philosophy is pretty much
stolen from TeX bibliography.

See the next several commits for examples.
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Jan Malakhovski
2016-04-20 21:57:33 +00:00
parent a7d75ab648
commit 660806066a
3 changed files with 46 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ rec {
, defaultText ? null # Textual representation of the default, for in the manual.
, example ? null # Example value used in the manual.
, description ? null # String describing the option.
, relatedPackages ? null # Related packages used in the manual (see `genRelatedPackages` in ../nixos/doc/manual/default.nix).
, type ? null # Option type, providing type-checking and value merging.
, apply ? null # Function that converts the option value to something else.
, internal ? null # Whether the option is for NixOS developers only.
@@ -76,7 +77,6 @@ rec {
getValues = map (x: x.value);
getFiles = map (x: x.file);
# Generate documentation template from the list of option declaration like
# the set generated with filterOptionSets.
optionAttrSetToDocList = optionAttrSetToDocList' [];
@@ -93,9 +93,10 @@ rec {
readOnly = opt.readOnly or false;
type = opt.type.description or null;
}
// (if opt ? example then { example = scrubOptionValue opt.example; } else {})
// (if opt ? default then { default = scrubOptionValue opt.default; } else {})
// (if opt ? defaultText then { default = opt.defaultText; } else {});
// optionalAttrs (opt ? example) { example = scrubOptionValue opt.example; }
// optionalAttrs (opt ? default) { default = scrubOptionValue opt.default; }
// optionalAttrs (opt ? defaultText) { default = opt.defaultText; }
// optionalAttrs (opt ? relatedPackages && opt.relatedPackages != null) { inherit (opt) relatedPackages; };
subOptions =
let ss = opt.type.getSubOptions opt.loc;