[arch-haskell] Documentation in binary packages?

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Sat Oct 12 07:36:18 UTC 2013


magnus:
> I notice that haddock documentation isn't built into binary packages
> (haskell-dataenc, haskell-network, etc), while it is shipped with GHC
> itself.  Furthermore, all packages built from AUR will include haddock
> documentation by default.
> 
> Is there any reason for *not* shipping haddock documentation with all
> pre-built packages?
> 
> At the moment this is causing me grief because haskell mode for vim
> relies on local documentation for features like "add import statement
> for identifier under the cursor", and with the current situation it
> will only find identifiers in GHC and AUR-built packages.

I think all our packages should ship with documentation (they should be
of the form generated by cabal2arch, effectively)



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