Brandon Allbery writes:

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote:

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Where can I find the full ghc prelude?

There was at one point an intention of making the "base" package available on Hackage, but at the moment you need the ghc source to get it.

And `base` is now living in the GHC tree itself; it no longer has its own repository which further complicates its status as a free-standing package. This was a conscious decision as much of `base` is quite tied to GHC. There have been various attempts to split base up into packages of finer granularity ([1] being the latest, as far as I know); unfortunately they have all run into various practical issues. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2013-July/020390.html

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

So - the standard place to see the haddocks for base isn't hackage anymore? Then, where?

I typically use http://lambda.haskell.org/platform/doc/current/index.html or https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/libraries/index.html which afaik are the canonical locations. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014, at 09:47 AM, Yitzchak Gale 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.

It seems to me that it is already there: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base It even has working source code links. Maybe I am completely missing the point of this discussion? -Karl

Yitzchak Gale writes:

Doug McIlroy wrote:

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Where can I find the full ghc prelude? In the local installation I was able to find only .hi files, not .hs.

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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:

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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

Yes, sorry, neither 7.8.4 nor 7.10.1 is actually out yet. They are both release candidates, and will be out soon. Thanks, Yitz On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:

I don't think GHC 7.10 is out yet: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download

Although that page doesn't have 7.8.4 on it.