latest symlink

Andrew Farmer xichekolas at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 21:05:53 UTC 2016


Yeah, I had to ask for this once before and it broke again with a new
GHC version, so I figured it wasn't the right solution. I take it most
people don't use hoogle on the GHC codebase... but I find it useful to
search by type signature.

Thanks for the temporary fix though!

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> Andrew Farmer <xichekolas at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Possibly related, when I use hoogle to look up GHC things ("+ghc
>> Unique", for instance) and try to click through to the haddocks, it
>> always 404s.
>>
> I've gone ahead and created a symlink for now. That being said, this
> seems like a very hacky solution.
>
> Moreover, I doubt that the database that the haskell.org Hoogle instance
> is using matches the current state of the code. We should probably try
> to update it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>


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