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

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 22:12:13 UTC 2014


truth. I think theres a few libs that do this, though their names escape me
right now.


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Joe Quinn <headprogrammingczar at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 1/6/2014 11:39 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>  You never know when you will want to have your documentation
> automatically generated by Template Haskell...
>
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