Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell: indexing all packages on Hackage with Hoogle

2015-02-08 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> I often don't use hoogle, hack-nix can autotag sources you use for > projects - that is always accurate. The usecase I have in mind is when I want to find out whether a certain thing exists on Hackage already or not. E.g., I need the Month data type; surely someone has already defined one, so I

Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell: indexing all packages on Hackage with Hoogle

2015-02-08 Thread Marc Weber
I often don't use hoogle, hack-nix can autotag sources you use for projects - that is always accurate. Marc Weber ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell: indexing all packages on Hackage with Hoogle

2015-02-08 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> Just for what it's worth, I have in the past indexed everything, but it causes > far too much noise in the search output. This is why the hoogle-local > expression takes the approach of asking for a list of 'packages' to indicate > what should be indexed. Well, it's certainly better than nothin

Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell: indexing all packages on Hackage with Hoogle

2015-02-08 Thread John Wiegley
> Nikita Karetnikov writes: > Has anyone tried that? Most of the guides suggest you to run the following > command, which should download the necessary databases, but it fails for me. Just for what it's worth, I have in the past indexed everything, but it causes far too much noise in the se

[Nix-dev] Haskell: indexing all packages on Hackage with Hoogle

2015-02-08 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
Has anyone tried that? Most of the guides suggest you to run the following command, which should download the necessary databases, but it fails for me. $ hoogle data all default hoogle: /nix/store/2qk57kvi2nfayicwg57wa20y0kvxcy0x-haskell-hoogle-ghc7.8.4-4.2.36-shared/share/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.8.4