[Haskell-beginners] ghc prelude home

[Yitzchak Gale]

I wrote:
>> So - the standard place to see the haddocks for base
>> isn't hackage anymore? Then, where?

Brandon Allbery wrote:
> I typically use http://lambda.haskell.org/platform/doc/current/index.html or
> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/libraries/index.html
> which afaik are the canonical locations.

The first links to the Haskell 2010 libraries. Those are interesting, but
I was referring to a working copy.

The second links to 7.8.3. You can also get to 7.8.4 on that site
if you poke around, but I don't see any obvious way to get the
haddocks for 7.10 there.

For me, the "canonical" place to find all haddocks is Hackage.
Won't it be inconvenient for users now to need two different bookmarks
in their browser, and to be forced to remember which packages
are bundled with GHC and which are not?

Even if base "lives in the GHC tree", can't base be uploaded to
hackage in a way that intentionally fails to install via cabal, with
an informative message? That way, at least the haddocks can be
available on hackage, and if we're lucky perhaps even the source.

Thanks,
Yitz