Quick Hackage question

[Judah Jacobson]

On Jan 21, 2008 4:53 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 14:57 -0800, Judah Jacobson wrote:
> >
> > Would it be possible to get better reporting of errors that prevent
> > Haddock docs from being built?  Some packages without docs list a
> > build log, but many others don't.
>
> [...]
>
> In the medium term, expecting the hackage server to be able to build
> each package is unrealistic. It will never have all the system libs and
> eventually will probably not have the cpu time to even build them all.
> The solution is to have separate building and have hackage just report
> the results.

That makes sense; but if the packages aren't built on the server, will
we still be able to display the Haddock docs?  Maybe there should be
some way for the person uploading a package to also upload its Haddock
files?

Thanks,
-Judah