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

[John Beattie]

Thanks for all this.  I tried the cabal method of F. (ariis.it) and that works fine.

Thanks again,
John

On 2017-08-30 02:20 +0000, Jake wrote:
> Another way of doing this is by using Nix package manager. This section 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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