[Haskell-beginners] ghc prelude home

[Yitzchak Gale]

Doug McIlroy wrote:
>>> Where can I find the full ghc prelude?
>>> In the local installation I was able to find only .hi files,
>>> not .hs.

I wrote:
>> 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.

Karl Voelker wrote:
> It seems to me that it is already there:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base
> It even has working source code links.

Well, that does answer Doug's original question. For now,
if Doug is still using GHC 7.8.3. But the 7.10 series is
out now, and it seems from what Ben and Brandon are
saying that the practice of uploading GHC-bundled
libraries such as base to hackage has now ended.