consistency in "ghc-pkg field '*' haddock-html"?

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Sat Jul 19 11:37:05 EDT 2008


On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 02:41:09PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 
> > - the entry for the ghc package is a lie (the html/ directory 
> >     doesn't exist, and the doc/html/libraries/ directory has 
> >     no ghc package docs)
> 
> Blame the ghc build system :-)

I expect we'll build the docs in 6.10, so it should be right by then.

> So the problems as I see it are why the core packages are using urls.

These are the HTML docs, so we want something web browsers understand (I
think they end up in haddock indexes or something?). I vaguely remember
we tried various things and the above file:///c:/... was the best
portable solution.


Thanks
Ian



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