haddock-2.3.0 literate comments discarded from .lhs input

Alistair Bayley alistair at abayley.org
Wed May 27 10:10:40 EDT 2009


Andrea,

2009/3/19 Andrea Vezzosi <sanzhiyan at gmail.com>:
> It turns out that those variables are there to allow relocation, in
> fact $topdir is expanded by
> Distribution.Simple.GHC.getInstalledPackages, it seems that
> $httptopdir has been overlooked.
> I'd be tempted to say that it's ghc-pkg dump/describe responsibility
> to expand those vars instead, like it does for ghc-pkg field.

Do you (or anyone else) intend to work on this? If not, I'd like to
fix it, but I'll need some guidance. Like, is
Distribution.Simple.GHC.getInstalledPackages where the variable
expansion code should go, or should it be somewhere else?

Alistair



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