GHC proposals not rendering

Tom Ellis tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2023 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
Tue Jan 23 08:36:38 UTC 2024


On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 08:30:47PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote:
> > On 22/01/2024 16:15, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> >> Is there any workaround at all?   E.g. a web site where you can give it 
> >> a URL for a RST file,  and it'll typeset the RST for you?  Or is it 
> >> impossible to to typeset RST?
> >
> > I tend to use pandoc to preview RST files locally. There are also a few 
> > websites that allow you to enter RST content directly and see a live 
> > preview (e.g. https://snippets.documatt.com/). They may not exactly line 
> > up with how GitHub renders things, of course, and I don't know of any 
> > that let you feed in a URL to an RST file hosted elsewhere.
> >
> As noted during the SWG meeting today, I suspect that the easiest way
> forward here may be to just render PRs via CI. However, I don't know how
> easy it is to preserve artifacts such that they are viewable using
> GitHub Actions. Jose will have a quick look at this.

Perhaps the artifacts could be deployed as Github Pages.  But in the
first instance I like Bryan's suggestion of just splitting the
documents into small-enough pieces.


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