Repeated (Identical) Types in Implementing Libraries

[Gastove]

I've been working with the folk over at Fleece on some documentation updates. This has involved, among other things, updating quite a number of major versions of FSharp.Formatting.

On FSharp.Formatting 9.0.1, we're seeing a great number of repeat types. Fleece is structured as a base module that is then used in JSON-framework-specific implementations; it appears we're getting one copy of each type from the base module, then a repeat of each type for each specific implementation.

How can we reduce this down, filter out the duplicates?

Thanks very much!

[dsyme]

Hmmmmm I'm not at all sure. Could you create some kind of minimal repro? The relevant code will be GenerateModel.fs

[dsyme]

To be honest I'd recommend generous use of exclude tags https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/tooling/FST-1031-xmldoc-extensions.md#exclude

There are multiple types of the same name in the same namespace across multiple DLLs. They should either be internal or, if really desired (which is incredibly rare), they should be explicitly excluded.

[dsyme]

(Closed as this is really by design for this this rare case - arguably showing the multiple types highlights a potential bug)