On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| I see it as a really big deal that documentation becomes fragmented when | one is using many packages, so that it's harder to find what you want. | In fact, I'd classify that as the single biggest reason that I don't use | many packages now
When you install packages A,B,C, the documentation for A,B,C (and nothing else) ought to be locally available as an integrated whole, much as at the GHC web site. I don't know whether Cabal does, or could do, that, but it's surely what one would expect.
I don't think that would be terribly hard. We would need to modify Haddock with the ability to generate links following a schema like /usr/share/doc/libghc6-$lowercasepackagename/html/$modulepath.html; this would be fairly easy with Haddock-GHC's ability to access package names and ghc-pkg haddock data, assuming Cabal and Haddock-GHC are fixed to work on the same system... Stefan