Broken documentation on Hackage.

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com>wrote:
>
> I think the fundamental problem is that Haddock is now built on top of
> ghc.  So if a package cannot be built by ghc (for whatever reason, e.g.
> missing C library dependency), then it cannot be documented either.  This
> is a good deal less than useful.  A documentation generator ought to do a
> reasonable job, even if the code it is looking at is technically
> not-compilable.
>
> At work, we have a stand-alone documentation generator for Haskell, which
> requires no compiler.  Haddock also was once stand-alone.  I think it might
> be time to wind the clock backwards and retrieve this desirable property.
>

The problem with that was you didn't get documentation if you used any GHC
extension added within the past year or so. You can't win....

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