Hi,

I had a chance to refresh Hoogle, so now the links work fine. Thanks
to Ranjit for generating the original GHC text database.

Thanks, Neil

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Neil Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I uploaded ghc.txt and converted it to Hoogle format. The links don't
> work since haskell.org is running an outdated Hoogle (something I hope
> to have a chance to fix this weekend). You can search with:
>
> http://haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%2Bghc+fixed
>
> If the GHC build system always built ghc.txt and uploaded it somewhere
> on the web then I would change the default Hoogle scripts to generate
> and search GHC and keep it up to date.
>
> Thanks, Neil
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ranjit Jhala <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all --
>>
>> I have put up ghc.hoo (built using hoogle-4.2.2) at:
>>
>>        http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/ghc.hoo
>>
>> This links to the ghc-7.0.2 documentation and is an
>> absolutely wonderful way to peer into the innards of GHC!
>>
>> Ranjit.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>> Have you thought about setting up a Hoogle instance for the GHC code
>>> base? I know Ranjit (cc'd) has been using it to help him get to grips
>>> with GHC, but I can imagine it's useful for all the newcomer GHC
>>> developers. If someone sends me the haddock --hoogle text output I'm
>>> happy to host it on haskell.org/hoogle
>>>
>>> Thanks, Neil
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Ben Lippmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 25/04/2011, at 12:54 PM, Adam Megacz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Edward Z. Yang" <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>> The feeling I get is most of GHC HQ doesn't use Haddock to browse
>>>>>> GHC... we go straight for the source (with maybe ctags/hasktags
>>>>>> setup).
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, perhaps this isn't the best use of my time.
>>>>
>>>> I use Haddock all the time, or at least try to. Thankyou for cleaning up 
>>>> the
>>>> Haddock docs. Please continue to do so.
>>>>
>>>> GHC was started before Haddock existed, which is why many of the modules
>>>> don't have docs. Having a well organised code base, with decent code
>>>> documentation is the #1 thing that will help new people get into the
>>>> project. Time put in documenting and cleaning up the source is never 
>>>> wasted.
>>>> Haddock hyperlinks also serve as a navigational aid that isn't provided by
>>>> the commentary.
>>>>
>>>> I've spent about two months full time so far just cleaning up and 
>>>> commenting
>>>> the DPH libraries and vectoriser. On a daily basis I look at some piece of
>>>> DPH or GHC code and don't know what it's for or what it does. Part of that
>>>> is just the natural development process, but if there *were* pre-existing
>>>> docs then my life would be significantly easier.
>>>>
>>>> Ben.
>>>>
>>>>
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