haddock

[David Waern]

2008/8/29 Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a GHC tree that builds and uses haddock 6.10 during the build
> process, and validates.
>
> David, as I understand it you want to avoid having a separate haddock
> repo for GHC, right?

Yes, but I don't like the thought of having to validate GHC every time
I push something. I think Neil's suggestion sounds good. With a
separate branch, it's too easy for GHC developers too push something
that's not compatible with earlier GHCs.

> So currently what I've done is to make darcs-all
> support absolute URLs in the packages file, e.g.:
>
>    utils/haddock    http://code.haskell.org/haddock    darcs
>
> and push-all will not attempt to push to this repo (as the "remote path"
> starts with "http:").
>
> This puts haddock in a similar boat to Cabal, in that if you make
> changes to it then you need to remember to push them specially.
> Perhaps we should make push-all see if there are any local patches, and
> shout loudly if there are?
>
> This does mean that any patches to the main haddock repo need to pass
> validate. Also, can we add some GHC people to the haddock group on
> community?

Yes we can. Perhaps you can do it since you're administrating
community and know which people it would be best to add?

David