Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add ghc-transformers

[Eric Bavier]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:43:24 +0200
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > Although other ghc packages in haskell.scm include these two outputs,
> > the "out" output very often ends up referencing the "doc" output, so
> > both end up installed in practice, so it should be safe to remove this
> > field.
> 
> Oh, too bad.  Do you know why the reference is kept?  Does that look
> like something that can be fixed?

References to the doc directory is often kept in the
lib/ghc-7.8.4/package.d/<package>.conf (or similar) file, in the
'haddock-interfaces' and 'haddock-html' fields.  We may be able to just
scrub the references, but it may break some user expectations about
using 'ghc-pkg' to find the location of documentation for a library.

> >> +    (description
> >> +     "A portable library of functor and monad transformers, inspired by 
> >> the
> >> +paper \"Functional Programming with Overloading and Higher-Order
> >> +Polymorphism\", by Mark P Jones, in Advanced School of Functional 
> >> Programming,
> >> +1995 (http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/pubs/springschool.html).")
> >
> > Descriptions can now optionally include texinfo markup, so maybe that
> > last could be "@url{http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/...}";
> 
> Better yet:
> 
>   @uref{http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/..., "Functional Programming…"}

Much better.

`~Eric