Haddock version during build

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Fri Jun 13 12:46:24 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:16:40PM +0200, David Waern wrote:
> 2008/6/13 Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>:
> > We can do this, but I think we should be careful about which library we
> > choose. There are a number of libraries doing this sort of thing, and we
> > don't want 3 different parts of the GHC bundle to end up using 3
> > different ones for no good reason.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, Neil's only really works with a single
> > datatype, and I'm therefore not sure it would be a good match for GHC's
> > mutually recursive datatypes.
> 
> You are probably confusing derive with uniplate, which is a library
> for generic traversals.

Oh, probably.

> The derive package is about automatic instance
> derivation.

Does it gain us much over deriving Data/Typeable?


Thanks
Ian



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