From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
To: James David Trotter <james.trotter@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add ghc-transformers
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 03:40:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151014034032.6fcf73b6@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABBc9zrRc00FmRCTn8_KaRZkwa8yWNG+j+C70_xO98_QEFLS6A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:11:52 +0200
James David Trotter <james.trotter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 October 2015 at 10:56, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:43:24 +0200
> > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> >
> > > Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> 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.
> >
>
> Are you saying that the whole line should be dropped, or only "doc"?
The 'outputs' field is not necessary, so, yes, the
entire line in this case may be dropped.
> > > >> + (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.
> >
>
> OK, I'll make the recommended changes and send a new patch.
Great, thanks!
`~Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-14 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-11 20:23 [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add ghc-transformers James David Trotter
2015-10-11 20:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: ghc-mtl: Upgrade to 2.2.1 James David Trotter
2015-10-12 23:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add ghc-transformers Eric Bavier
2015-10-13 9:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 8:56 ` Eric Bavier
2015-10-13 21:11 ` James David Trotter
2015-10-14 8:40 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
2015-10-15 15:24 ` Paul van der Walt
2015-10-15 17:21 ` James David Trotter
2015-10-15 19:25 ` Paul van der Walt
2015-10-19 14:21 ` Paul van der Walt
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