I've been using docidx for a while now. It's a great little tool. I highly recommend to anyone looking for a centralized documentation tool.
Jack On Jul 15, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Andy Gimblett wrote: > Hi all. I'd like to announce docidx, a new tool for Haskell documentation: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/docidx > http://github.com/gimbo/docidx.hs > > docidx is a program which creates a static HTML page indexing your installed > packages, with links to your local haddock docs and to each package's hackage > page. It covers global and user packages, and handles multiple installed > versions sensibly. Here's how the output looks: > > http://github.com/gimbo/docidx.hs/raw/master/examples/example.png > > The idea is to complement the "index by module name" which Cabal creates and > maintains. Sometimes you want to find things by package. :-) (But note > that unlike Cabal's index, docidx's isn't automatically updated when you > install a new package; so, I run it once an hour from cron.) > > Please see the github page for more details, including customisation options. > > Hopefully somebody will find this useful. Maybe one day it could be part of > cabal-install? :-) > > Thanks! > > -Andy > > PS: A bit of history/due credit: Martijn van Steenbergen did something > similar in PHP in early 2009: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53531/focus=53572 ; then > I wrote a static version in Python later that year: > http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2009/09/23/ ; then Andy Price ported that to > Haskell: https://github.com/andyprice/docidx.hs ; finally, I rewrote that to > build the index via Cabal rather than walking the filesystem directly - and > here we are. > > -- > Andy Gimblett > hask...@gimbo.org.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > haskell-c...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
