Yitzchak Gale
Doug McIlroy wrote:
Where can I find the full ghc prelude? In the local installation I was able to find only .hi files, not .hs.
I wrote:
Even if base "lives in the GHC tree", can't base be uploaded to hackage in a way that intentionally fails to install via cabal, with an informative message? That way, at least the haddocks can be available on hackage, and if we're lucky perhaps even the source.
Karl Voelker wrote:
It seems to me that it is already there: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base It even has working source code links.
Well, that does answer Doug's original question. For now, if Doug is still using GHC 7.8.3. But the 7.10 series is out now, and it seems from what Ben and Brandon are saying that the practice of uploading GHC-bundled libraries such as base to hackage has now ended.
Well, I didn't mean to impl that. I just meant that source-wise base is certainly not a free-standing package (and hasn't been for some time). Despite this, there is no reason (that I know of) why the documentation couldn't be uploaded to Hackage. Cheers, - Ben