Re: Passing --hoogle to haddock when building base

2010-11-07 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Claus, > While you're revisiting Hoogle, might you be able to > work from .haddock and .hi files (via haddock API and > GHC API/ghci), instead of from sources, making Hoogle > independent of/separate from Haddock's frontend? All Hoogle needs is a way to generate a text file listing exactly wha

Re: Passing --hoogle to haddock when building base

2010-11-06 Thread Claus Reinke
I'm revisiting Hoogle development and the base library is the one sticking point before I make a new Hoogle release. While you're revisiting Hoogle, might you be able to work from .haddock and .hi files (via haddock API and GHC API/ghci), instead of from sources, making Hoogle independent of/se

Passing --hoogle to haddock when building base

2010-11-06 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi, For nearly all packages on hackage, haddock is run over them with --hoogle, which generates documentation (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm) and a hoogle database (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/stm/2.2.0.1/doc/html/stm.txt). However, the base library is special, and hackage