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

2015-02-08 Thread John Wiegley
Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org 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

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 nothing.

[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:

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
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