Haddock version during build

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 23:59 +0200, David Waern wrote:
> 2008/6/16 Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>:
> > But if you don't rehaddock them then their haddocks still have that bug
> > that you fixed, or still miss that feature that you added. (Unless the
> > bug/feature only affects features that the bootlibs don't use).
> 
> Ah, true. So let's scrap backwards-compatibility.
> 
> But couldn't one re-haddock the boot libs by letting cabal-install
> re-install their documentation?

In principle, yes.

> This would similar to upgrading the boot-libs after a GHC installation.

Yes.

> Then it would still be meaningful
> to upgrade Haddock separately.


Duncan