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

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sat Jul 19 13:09:02 EDT 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 16:37 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 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.

If we do want it to be a uri then we'd better make Cabal generate that
too.

Duncan



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