[Haskell-cafe] To merge package documentation with the platform doc tree

[Jake]

Another way of doing this is by using Nix package manager. This section
<https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#how-to-install-a-compiler-with-libraries-hoogle-and-documentation-indexes>
of
the manual explains how to create a shell environment with a set of
specified packages installed that includes a unified haddock documentation
directory.

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:32 PM Francesco Ariis <fa-ml at ariis.it> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:06:27PM +0100, John Beattie wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Suppose I download a package and install it. I would like to be able to
> have
> > the html documentation for that package and I would like it to be
> integrated
> > with the local doc tree in the haskell platform.
> >
> > Is this a recognised usecase and is there a recommended way to do that?
> >
> > My first thought was to use haddock but I haven't managed to work out if
> there
> > is a combination of haddock options which would get me there.
> >
> > As an alternative, I was wondering about cloning the GHC platform source
> and
> > pasting the new library into the source tree alongside the other
> libraries and
> > building the documentation.  I might have to tweak a makefile or
> somesuch but
> > would that work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Beattie
>
> Hello John,
>
> ah, my time to spam!
>
>     http://ariis.it/static/articles/no-docs-hackage/page.html
>
> I bootstrap cabal (HP minimal?) and it works as written. I did not test
> it with HP full but I don't think it should have problems with that.
>
> Let me know if it does the trick
> -F
>
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