From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James David Trotter Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add ghc-transformers Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:11:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1444595036-20254-1-git-send-email-james.trotter@gmail.com> <20151012182809.0d494eb5@openmailbox.org> <874mhvrtmr.fsf@gnu.org> <20151013035648.7a6e73d3@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm6rT-00070P-Fn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:11:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm6rS-0002SO-51 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:11:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20151013035648.7a6e73d3@openmailbox.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Bavier Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Thanks for the feedback! On 13 October 2015 at 10:56, Eric Bavier wrote= : > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:43:24 +0200 > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote: > > > Eric Bavier 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 thi= s > > > 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/.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"? > > > >> + (description > > >> + "A portable library of functor and monad transformers, inspire= d by the > > >> +paper \"Functional Programming with Overloading and Higher-Order > > >> +Polymorphism\", by Mark P Jones, in Advanced School of Functional P= rogramming, > > >> +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=E2=80=A6"} > > Much better. > OK, I'll make the recommended changes and send a new patch. -- James