Is it possible to perhaps just delete it and let the internet archive preserve it for posterity? Alternatively, if as a historical document it should be preserved, could it be clearly marked as a historical document, not for up-to-date use, and perhaps even moved to another domain (haskell-history.org?).
The original Cabal proposal (which must be from about 20 years ago) appears on Haskell.org. It is not clearly marked as an archive of a historical document. A user tried to follow it to enable
FlexibleContexts
, specifically the The Cabal simple build infrastructure section.Is it possible to perhaps just delete it and let the internet archive preserve it for posterity? Alternatively, if as a historical document it should be preserved, could it be clearly marked as a historical document, not for up-to-date use, and perhaps even moved to another domain (haskell-history.org?).
It's really, really confusing for users to come across documentation that is not up-to-date. See an example that occurred just today.