Thanks for all this. I tried the cabal method of F. (ariis.it) and that works fine. Thanks again, John On 2017-08-30 02:20 +0000, Jake wrote:

Another way of doing this is by using Nix package manager. This section of the manual explains how to create a shell environment with a set of specified packages installed that includes a unified haddock documentation directory.

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:32 PM Francesco Ariis wrote:

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:06:27PM +0100, John Beattie wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose I download a package and install it. I would like to be able to have > the html documentation for that package and I would like it to be integrated > with the local doc tree in the haskell platform. > > Is this a recognised usecase and is there a recommended way to do that? > > My first thought was to use haddock but I haven't managed to work out if there > is a combination of haddock options which would get me there. > > As an alternative, I was wondering about cloning the GHC platform source and > pasting the new library into the source tree alongside the other libraries and > building the documentation.  I might have to tweak a makefile or somesuch but > would that work? > > Thanks, > John Beattie

Hello John,

ah, my time to spam!

    http://ariis.it/static/articles/no-docs-hackage/page.html

I bootstrap cabal (HP minimal?) and it works as written. I did not test it with HP full but I don't think it should have problems with that.

Let me know if it does the trick -F

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