On 21 April 2011 05:34, Andrew Coppin
I notice that there's duplicate reports of the HTML documentation in the Haskell Platform having chunks missing
Which ticket numbers are these? Trac allows one of them to be closed as a duplicate. Perhaps you can do that, or at least provide those details in email here.
When I get a minute I'll log in, mark the duplicates, and add a note to the ticket confirming that the issue still exists.
great!
I thought the purpose of filing a bug report was to get things fixed?
The purpose of filing bug reports is to ensure that problems are not forgotten. It allows the community (people like you) to have a useful understanding of the problems that exist when choosing what tasks to put time and effort into fixing.
*sigh* I guess that means the next step is to figure out if it's broken for the Linux builds as well, or just for Windows. (Can't test for Mac OS since I don't have access to the necessary hardware or software...)
The first step would be to make a patch that works for you, and to attach it to the ticket. Other people could verify that it works on other platforms -- perhaps after attaching the patch you could mail this list and ask people to check it :) Then again if it's simply a matter of generating additional HTML text (as opposed to styling/rendering issues) then it should be straightforward to verify that the new content is added in the generated files without worrying about other platforms. Conrad.