regarding testsuite

[Claus Reinke]

>>> - the usage documentation page is only online. it should be
>>>    copied into the download, for offline users.
>> But then we have the problem of keeping it in sync.
> 
> that is exactly the problem your users run into, only aggravated
> by not having the page in the first place. can't the trak wiki push
> the plain text version of the wiki page into the repo after each edit?

or, how about a separate repo for all the parts of the developer
wiki relevant to building, testing, hacking, and a cron job that
records and pushes from the wiki files nightly?

i still tend to work offline a lot, especially when i want to get
things done without distractions. and i always run into this 
"everyone is online" issue with ghc: the building guide, the 
test instructions, the commentary, the validation guidelines, 
.. all unavailable if i go offline after 'darcs-all pull'..

those who like or need to be offline when hacking 
could then simply add the wikidocs package to the 
darcs-all targets, and happily work in peace (or in a
plane, where much of ghc was born?-).

claus