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

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

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?

>> +    (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…"}

Thanks,
Ludo’.