On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Malcolm Wallace
I think the fundamental problem is that Haddock is now built on top of ghc. So if a package cannot be built by ghc (for whatever reason, e.g. missing C library dependency), then it cannot be documented either. This is a good deal less than useful. A documentation generator ought to do a reasonable job, even if the code it is looking at is technically not-compilable.
At work, we have a stand-alone documentation generator for Haskell, which requires no compiler. Haddock also was once stand-alone. I think it might be time to wind the clock backwards and retrieve this desirable property.
The problem with that was you didn't get documentation if you used any GHC extension added within the past year or so. You can't win.... -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net