Hello Roman!

Thank you, this is a great contribution. I found myself several times
modifying the html output by hand in order to do exactly this. Nice!


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <r...@ro-che.info> wrote:

> I am happy to announce the first release of standalone-haddock.
>
>   http://feuerbach.github.io/standalone-haddock/
>
> standalone-haddock generates standalone haddock Haskell documentation.
>
> When you simply run `cabal haddock`, the resulting HTML documentation
> contains
> hyperlinks to other packages on your system. As a result, you cannot
> publish it
> on the internet (well, you can, but the links will be broken).
>
> standalone-haddock takes several packages for which you want to publish
> documentation. It generates documentation for them with proper links:
>
> * links to identifiers inside this package set are relative
> * links to identifiers from external packages lead to hackage
>
> Thus the resulting directory with HTML is relocatable and publishable.
>
> **TL;DR**: it just works. See the [haskell-suite][] documentation for an
> example
> output.
>
> [haskell-suite]: http://haskell-suite.github.io/docs
>
> Usage
> -----
>
>     Usage: standalone-haddock [--package-db DB-PATH] -o OUTPUT-PATH
> [PACKAGE-PATH]
>
>     Available options:
>       -h,--help                Show this help text
>       --package-db DB-PATH     Additional package database
>       -o OUTPUT-PATH           Directory where html files will be placed
>
> `PACKAGE-PATH` is the path to the (unpacked) package — i.e. a directory
> with a
> `.cabal` file.
>
> For example:
>
>     standalone-haddock -o doc haskell-names haskell-packages
> haskell-src-exts hse-cpp cabal/Cabal
>
> **NOTE**: dependencies of every package need to be already installed in the
> system with documentation (even those dependencies that themselves belong
> to the
> current package set). If they are installed in a non-standard package
> database
> (e.g. if you use sandboxes), use the `--package-db` option.
>
> Cabal dependency
> ----------------
>
> The program only builds with (unreleased) Cabal 1.17 which you can get from
> [github](https://github.com/haskell/cabal).
>
> I spent some time trying to make it compatible with Cabal 1.16 (see
> [Cabal-1.16][] branch), but the API seems to have changed too much.
>
> If you seriously care about this, feel free to send a patch, but it's
> really
> easier just to install Cabal HEAD.
>
> [Cabal-1.16]:
> https://github.com/feuerbach/standalone-haddock/tree/Cabal-1.16
>
> Roman
>
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