"latest" links to API docs on HackageDB?

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Tue Nov 11 08:39:50 EST 2008


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:12:09PM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> HackageDB documentation links for the "latest" version of packages
> appears to be missing.  For instance, the haskell.org wiki at
> 
>     http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Opengl
> 
> points to Haddock'ed API documentation at
> 
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/OpenGL/latest/doc/html/
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/GLUT/latest/doc/html/
> 
> but there is nothing there (404 not found).  Searching around, I
> eventually discovered documentation for specific versions (2.1 and
> 2.2.1.1), but having a simple "latest" link that always works would be
> very useful.

You can get the package page for the latest version (including the
module index to the documentation) with

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/OpenGL

The "latest" links are only needed if you want to link to a module.



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