On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:38:03PM +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:40, Andrew Coppin wrote:
I have the following page bookmarked:
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/
I'd like to ask 2 things.
1. Would it be possible to make the *huge* list of package names at the top collapsable? (That way I don't have to scroll through several pages of uninteresting text to get to the bit I actually want.)
What do you mean exactly with "the *huge* list of package names"? The description list with the short textual descriptions of each package?
It's about a fifth of the page, I think, and it'll get larger percentagewise as base breaks up more. Also, on Debian systems, we add all installed libraries to this index, so it gets even larger.
I'd say that this list is highly interesting to people unfamiliar with the package structure, so it is good that it is there.
Is that really helpful? There isn't a mapping from package name to modules, so I'm not sure what it buys you. I'm sure I've never looked at it. I'm interested in other opinions on this, as I planned to remove the list from the Debian packages. Would it be better to have a separate page with a package index, containing the description of each package and a link to each of the modules that it provides? Thanks Ian