On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:04:24PM -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:
I love this idea. Having to specify the local interface file is a major defect of my solution. I'd much rather specify just the URL for the external library docs. I'd also be happy to adopt some convention about where to put such docs so they could be determined automatically. Perhaps via indirection where necessary. Then my per-project makefile content would vanish altogether.
Ross: I don't understand the last remark below about my requirements differ from HackageDB's.
I was thinking of a single option to specify a template for the URL (pointing at docs generated by HackageDB), whereas you'd need two different templates for your cross-references: http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/$pkg/doc/html http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/$pkg But we could set up a directory on haskell.org to unify those. In the longer term, maybe some day HackageDB will be generating something you'd be happy to use.