[Haskell-cafe] Location of library documentation with 6.12.1?

Roly Perera roly.perera at dynamicaspects.org
Sat May 1 10:19:19 EDT 2010


Thanks for those replies, it's a lot clearer now. By the way, is there
a unified package view for all the documentation shipped with the
Haskell Platform, or do I need to know what library to look in?

cheers,
Roly

On 1 May 2010 15:33, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Roly Perera <roly.perera at dynamicaspects.org> writes:
>> I've just upgraded from 6.10.1 to 6.12.1 and can't seem to find all
>> the library documentation. This page is apparently the documentation
>> root:
>>
>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/
>>
>> but if I click through to the Haskell Hierarchical Libraries page
>>
>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/libraries/index.html
>>
>> I can't for example find Control.Monad.State. I guess I'm missing
>> something obvious about how things are organised?
>
> This is part of the mtl library.  Prior to GHC 6.10.4, this used to be
> part of the "extralibs" that were often bundled with GHC and thus were
> on GHC's documentation page.  With 6.10.4, extralibs was replaced with
> the Haskell Platform and as such is no longer featured on GHC's
> documentation page.
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
>


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