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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+dash-haskell
+============
+**local and approximate package doc access for your Haskell project dependencies**
+
+  **direct to browser lookup:**
+  ![look-up](/img/lookup.png?raw=true)
+ 
+
+  **keyword, module, and package searching:**
+  ![listing](/img/listing.png?raw=true)
+
+The purpose of the dash-haskell is to facilitate Haskell documentation in IDE(s), with the following qualities:
+  
+  * **Local**
+
+    Documentation is stored in [dash](http://kapeli.com/dash) docsets on the filesystem,
+    avoiding the need to query **often inaccurate, version lagged** information from a remote resource such as *hackage*,
+    *hoogle*, or *hayoo*.
+    
+  * **Resolved from Project Dependencies**
+
+    With dash-haskell, one can build dash docsets from:
+     * packages listed as dependencies of a *.cabal file
+     * packages in a cabal sandbox
+     * an arbitrary package db
+
+  * **Scope Narrowed**
+    
+    IDE plugins such as [helm-dash](https://github.com/areina/helm-dash)
+    allow for only specific docsets to be active. This means that
+    when searching for an identifier, e.g. *fromJust*, only the
+    packages you've built in your configuration are searched. Searches
+    can then be further narrowed by module etc.
+
+  * **Prolifically Standardized** 
+
+    [dash docsets](http://kapeli.com/dash) are an open, easily assimilated standard, and
+    are used across many IDE(s).
+
+Summary
+=======
+```
+  Usage: dash-haskell [-p|--dbprovider <provider,args>] [-o|--output <dir>]
+                      [-q|--quiet] [-c|--cabal <file.cabal>]
+                      [-r|--cabal-constraints executable=name, ..] [packages]
+    additional help is available with "dash-haskell help <topic|option>"
+
+  Available options:
+    -h,--help                Show this help text
+    -p,--dbprovider <provider,args>
+                             a ghc package db provider: cabal|ghc|dir
+    -o,--output <dir>        the directory to write created docsets to
+    -q,--quiet               set to quiet output
+    -c,--cabal <file.cabal>  the cabal file to retrieve package dependencies from 
+    -r,--cabal-constraints executable=name, ..
+                             limit package results from a cabal file source, see
+                             documentation
+    packages                 a list of packages to specifically build, e.g.
+                             either-1.0.1 text-1.2.0
+```
+
+Usage Example
+=============
+The following example shows how to use **dash-haskell** to generate
+docsets for a **cabal sandbox project**.
+
+```
+  $ cd foo-1.2.0/ 
+  $ dash-haskell -c foo.cabal -o docsets 
+  db provider:
+    lookup strategy: cabal sandbox db index
+    cmd: cabal
+    args: sandbox hc-pkg list
+
+  processing: system-filepath-0.4.12
+    writing files..
+    writing plist..
+    populating database..
+    finished populating sqlite database..
+
+  processing: system-fileio-0.3.14
+    writing files..
+    writing plist..
+    populating database..
+    finished populating sqlite database..
+
+  processing: pipes-4.1.2
+    writing files..
+    writing plist..
+    populating database..
+    finished populating sqlite database..
+
+  warning: failed to process: parsec-3.1.5
+  warning: path errors in pkg conf file:
+   /home/jpf/local/cabal-sandboxes/dash-haskell/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.8.3-packages.conf.d/parsec-3.1.5-abf7e89cafe4e74712f678cea843c1c8.conf
+  with problem(s):
+   missing: haddock interface file
+   missing: html doc dir
+
+  processing: sqlite-simple-0.4.8.0
+    writing files..
+    writing plist..
+    populating database..
+    finished populating sqlite database..
+
+  $
+
+```
+
+Notice, the failure of ```parsec-3.1.5``` is illustrated here to show that
+in this case, dash-haskell depends on **haddock documentation** being built for
+the requested package.
+A possible resolution in this case, if using a sandbox, is:
+
+```
+$ cabal install --reinstall parsec-3.1.5 --enable-documentation
+$ dash-haskell parsec-3.1.5 -o docsets
+```
+
+**dash-haskell** tries to be as self-documenting as possible. Please see:
+```
+$ dash-haskell help [option|topic]
+```
+
+Installation
+============
+```
+$ cabal install dash-haskell
+```
+or
+
+```
+ $ git clone http://www.github.com/jfeltz/dash-haskell
+ $ cd dash-haskell
+ $ cabal install 
+```
+
+Package Resolution
+==================
+When dependency sourcing from a cabal file, dash-haskell does not (yet) select versioned packages from the build-dependency version bounds, only the package names. As a general rule, try to **be version specific** when providing package arguments, unless you're judicious about which packages are stored in your *cabal sandbox* or *ghc package db*. There is a lot of hidden behavior that goes into how dash-haskell resolves packages, 
+for example, consider the hypothetical package arguments:
+```
+$ dash-haskell either parsec-1.2 parsec
+```
+This chooses by default:
+
+* ```either``` and ```parsec-1.2``` as the parameter packages. 
+  If for example ```parsec``` were sourced from a cabal file, with ```-c```, 
+  ```parsec-1.2``` would still be chosen instead. 
+* cabal as a package db provider:
+  implicitly calling ```cabal sandbox hc-pkg list```.
+  By convention the first db that provides the unversioned package is chosen.
+* ```either-4.1.0``` and ```parsec-1.2``` are then selected from the package db,
+where their config files are parsed for the documentation sources to be converted. 
+
+
+IDE Configuration
+=================
+To use the generated docsets , you will need a plugin for your particular IDE which can access
+them.
+
+* **Emacs**
+
+  **dash-haskell** is tested with the following for emacs:
+
+  * [helm](https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm) , a fuzzy finder plugin for emacs
+  * [helm-dash](https://github.com/areina/helm-dash) , the essential extension to helm in order to lookup dash docsets
+
+  For limiting helm-dash to project specific docsets, the following also helps. 
+
+  ```lisp
+(defun activate-package-docsets (root) 
+  (progn
+     (setq helm-dash-docsets-path root) 
+     (setq helm-dash-common-docsets (helm-dash-installed-docsets))
+      
+     (message 
+      (format "activated %d docsets from: %s" 
+        (length helm-dash-common-docsets) root))
+  ))
+  ```
+
+  ```lisp
+  (activate-package-docsets "/path/to/project/docsets/")
+```
+
+* For **Vim**, see the following known docset plugins:
+
+    * The zealdocs [vim plugin](http://www.zealdocs.org)
+    * The Dash.app [vim plugin](https://github.com/rizzatti/dash.vim)
+
+Features slated for V2
+======================
+* handle **docset pre-builts**
+
+    set pre-built criteria, pre-built skipping, and provide a ```--rebuild``` to force rebuild of a docset
+
+* **summaries**
+
+    provide summary information to help users better understand which
+    packages failed and succeeded
+
+* **version biasing** 
+
+    provide option to bias package version to highest when it is otherwise ambiguous
+
+* ```conf``` argument support 
+
+    build docset directly from a package db .conf 
+
+* ```doc``` argument 
+
+    build docsets directly from a package doc directory 
+    (containing the requisite ```*.haddock``` interface and html files)
+
+Contributors
+============
+Hirotomo Moriwaki <philopon.dependence@gmail.com>
+
+The major instigator of this project was Hirotomo Moriwaki's [haddocset](https://github.com/philopon/haddocset), with much of the early implementation of *dash-haskell* influenced by that code-base.
+
+Author & Maintainer
+===================
+John P. Feltz <jfeltz@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/dash-haskell.cabal b/dash-haskell.cabal
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+name:                dash-haskell
+version:             1.0.0.0
+synopsis:            Command line tool to generate Dash docsets (IDE docs) from package haddock
+homepage:            http://www.github.com/jfeltz/dash-haskell
+Bug-reports:         https://github.com/jfeltz/dash-haskell/issues
+license:             LGPL-3
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              John P. Feltz
+maintainer:          jfeltz@gmail.com
+copyright:           (c) 2014 John P. Feltz 
+category:            Documentation
+build-type:          Simple
+cabal-version:       >= 1.18
+extra-source-files:  README.md 
+
+description: 
+  Dash is a framework and file format for allowing easy lookup and indexing of
+  programming docs, e.g. API functions and modules. A number of plugins offer dash docset
+  lookup in editors such as Emacs and Vim.  By using this tool, one can
+  convert haskell package haddock(s) to docsets. 
+  .
+  The major benefit of dash-haskell, is that once these docsets are built, dash tools
+  provide one of the few, if only solutions for offline, contextual, and project dependency
+  approximate IDE documentation for Haskell. 
+  .
+  Summary:
+  .
+  > $ dash-haskell --help 
+  > Usage: dash-haskell [-p|--dbprovider <provider,args>] [-o|--output <dir>]
+  >                     [-q|--quiet] [-c|--cabal <file.cabal>]
+  >                     [-r|--cabal-constraints executable=name, ..] [packages]
+  >   additional help is also available on arguments with "dash-haskell help arg"
+
+  > Available options:
+  >   -h,--help                Show this help text
+  >   -p,--dbprovider <provider,args>
+  >                            a ghc package db provider: cabal|ghc|dir
+  >   -o,--output <dir>        the directory to write created docsets to
+  >   -q,--quiet               set to quiet output
+  >   -c,--cabal <file.cabal>  the cabal file to source package dependencies from 
+  >   -r,--cabal-constraints executable=name, ..
+  >                            limit package results from a cabal file source, see
+  >                            documentation
+  >   packages                 a list of packages to specifically build, e.g.
+  >                            either-1.0.1 text-1.2.0
+  .
+  > $ cd foo-1.2.0/ 
+  > $ dash-haskell -c foo.cabal -o docsets 
+  > db provider:
+  >   lookup strategy: cabal sandbox db index
+  >   cmd: cabal
+  >   args: sandbox hc-pkg list
+  >
+  > processing: system-filepath-0.4.12
+  >   writing files..
+  >   writing plist..
+  >   populating database..
+  >   finished populating sqlite database..
+  >
+  > processing: system-fileio-0.3.14
+  >   writing files..
+  >   writing plist..
+  >   populating database..
+  >   finished populating sqlite database..
+  >
+  > processing: pipes-4.1.2
+  >   writing files..
+  >   writing plist..
+  >   populating database..
+  >   finished populating sqlite database..
+  >
+  > warning: failed to process: parsec-3.1.5
+  > warning: path errors in pkg conf file:
+  >  /home/jpf/local/cabal-sandboxes/dash-haskell/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.8.3-packages.conf.d/parsec-3.1.5-abf7e89cafe4e74712f678cea843c1c8.conf
+  > with problem(s):
+  >  missing: haddock interface file
+  >  missing: html doc dir
+  >
+  > processing: sqlite-simple-0.4.8.0
+  >   writing files..
+  >   writing plist..
+  >   populating database..
+  >   finished populating sqlite database..
+  >
+  > $
+  .
+  Notice, the failure of parsec-3.1.5 is illustrated here to show that in this case, dash-haskell depends on haddock documentation being built for the requested package. A possible resolution in this case, if using a sandbox, is:
+  .
+  > $ cabal install --reinstall parsec-3.1.5 --enable-documentation
+  > $ dash-haskell parsec-3.1.5 -o docsets
+  .
+  Versions:
+  .
+  The version numbering scheme for this package is defined as follows, given: 
+  .
+  >dash-haskell-a.b.c.d
+  .
+  a, b index interface or feature changes to the CLI
+  .
+  c, d index bug-fix and documentation updates
+  .
+
+
+executable dash-haskell
+  main-is:             Main.hs
+  build-depends:       Cabal                >= 1.18
+                     , base                 >= 4.7 && <4.8
+                     , bytestring           >= 0.10.0.1
+                     , containers           >= 0.5.5.1
+                     , direct-sqlite >= 2.3.13
+                     , directory            >= 1.2.1.0
+                     , either               >= 4.3
+                     , ghc                  >= 7.8.3
+                     , mtl                  >= 2.1.3.1
+                     , optparse-applicative >= 0.10.0
+                     , pipes                >= 4.1.0
+                     , process              >= 1.2.0.0
+                     , sqlite-simple        >= 0.4.5.0
+                     , system-fileio        >= 0.3.12 && < 0.3.15
+                     , system-filepath      >= 0.3.1 && < 0.5
+                     , tagsoup              >= 0.12.7
+                     , text                 >= 0.7.1
+                     , transformers         >= 0.3 && < 0.5
+                     , parsec               >= 3.1.5
+                     , haddock-api          >= 2.15.0
+  ghc-options:         -Wall -rtsopts
+  hs-source-dirs:      src
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
diff --git a/src/Main.hs b/src/Main.hs
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+import qualified Filesystem.Path.CurrentOS as P
+import           Control.Monad.M
+import           Pipes
+import           Pipes.FileSystem
+import           Pipes.Conf
+import           Pipes.Db
+import           Options.Applicative
+import           Options.Documentation
+import           Options
+
+import qualified Data.List as L
+import           System.Environment
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = do 
+  -- Check for help mode arg first. There doesn't seem to be a good way to do this
+  -- otherwise with opt-parse applicative.
+  args <- getArgs
+  case L.partition (== "help") args of 
+    ([], args') -> do
+      options <- handleParseResult $ execParserPure (prefs idm) parserInfo args'
+      
+      -- Run the package processing pipeline. Packages that can't be completed due
+      -- to either conversion error or user error, should, if necessary, leave a safe partially
+      -- completed state on the FS that can be handled by dependant tools, e.g. Emacs helm-dash.
+
+      runM (newEnv (not . quiet $ options)) . runEffect $
+       cons_writeFiles (P.decodeString $ outputDir options) -- writes converted html, haddock, and sql db
+       <-< pipe_Conf              -- yields vetted package configurations
+       <-< pipe_ConfFp (dbprovider options)  -- yields GHC package config files
+       <-< prod_Packages options
+    (_, rest) -> toHelp docs rest
+  
+  where 
+   parserInfo :: ParserInfo Options
+   parserInfo = info (helper <*> parser)  $
+     header "dash-haskell v1.0.0.0, a dash docset construction tool for Haskell packages"
+     <> progDesc "additional help is available with \"dash-haskell help <topic|option>\""
+     <> footer "http://www.github.com/jfeltz/dash-haskell (C) John P. Feltz 2014"
