Where did the GHC API go?

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Mon Dec 28 06:06:29 EST 2009


> Too late. We had a stable link, I used it, Google used it, blog posts
> were written that linked to it, I've emailed my wife links to it, I've
> put them in Word documents, I've posted them on internal intranets.
> You can't create a link, put content behind it, then move the content
> - it just breaks the whole web.

And incidentally, the _ghc_docs_ themselves continue to use these  
stable links to library docs, most of which are currently broken.

All of the following links from documentation for ghc-6.12.1 give a  
404 Not Found.  (I do not claim the list is exhaustive.)

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/packages.html
section 4.8 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-Simple.html
section 4.8.8 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-InstalledPackageInfo.html# 
%tInstalledPackageInfo
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-License.html#t 
:License

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/using-concurrent.html
section 4.12 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/primitives.html
section 7.2 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC-Prim.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html
section 7.3.10 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/GHC-Exts.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/arrow-notation.html
section 7.10 links twice to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Arrow.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/pragmas.html
section 7.13.1 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/Language-Haskell-Extension.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/special-ids.html
section 7.15 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC-Prim.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/lang-parallel.html
section 7.18.1 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html
section 7.18.2 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/stm/Control-Concurrent-STM.html
section 7.18.4 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/parallel/Control-Parallel.html
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/parallel/Control-Parallel-Strategies.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi.html
section 8 incorrectly links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html
where the real link ought to be
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Foreign.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ffi-ghc.html
section 8.2.4.2 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Concurrent.html

from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ghci-windows.html
section 11.2 links to
     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/GHC-ConsoleHandler.html


Regards,
     Malcolm



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