[Haskell-cafe] Please fix documentation for you Hackage packages!

[Niklas Hambüchen]

Evil! This doesn't happen with cabal, does it?

On Mon 06 Jan 2014 17:39:38 CET, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>
> On 6 Jan 2014, at 16:23, Sven Panne wrote:
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>> 2014/1/6 Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me>:
>>> Haddock can't do it.
>>
>> Doxygen doesn't generate *.o files, either AFAIK...
>
> Ya!  Haddock's insistence on actually compiling the module (rather than just generating documentation) was the source of one of our most puzzling bugs ever.
>
> (1) Compile library with ghc.
> (2) Generate docs with Haddock.
> (3) Link library.
>
> Who would ever suspect that the code got recompiled with different options in that middle step?
>
> Regards,
>     Malcolm
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