Changelog for haddock-2.7.0

Changes in version 2.7.0: * Instances can be commented * The Haddock API now exposes more of the internals of Haddock * Bug fixes (most importantly #128) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 2.6.0: * Drop support for GHC 6.10.* * Add support for GHC 6.12.1 * Cross-package documentation: full documentation show up when re-exporting things coming from external packages * Lexing and parsing the Haddock comment markup is now done in Haddock again, instead of in GHC * Slightly prettier printing of instance heads * Support platforms for which GHC has no native code generator * Add a flag --print-ghc-libdir * Minor bug fixes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed in version 2.5.0: * Drop support for GHC 6.8.* * Add support for GHC 6.10.3 and 6.10.4 * Revert to the old multi-page index for large packages (#106) * Show GADT records in the generated documentation * Create output directory if it doesn't exist (#104) * Use the native codegen instead of compiling via C for TH modules * Add --use-unicode flag for displaying prettier versions of common symbols * Mutiple verbosity levels: remove --verbose and add --verbosity=n ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed in version 2.4.2: * Support GHC 6.10.2 * Haddock no longer crashes on Template Haskell modules (#68) (only with GHC 6.10.2 or above) * Fix problem with Template Haskell-generated declarations disappearing (#59) * Generate two anchors for each link for compatibility between IE and Opera (#45) * Improved error messages * Show re-exports from external packages again (GHC ticket #2746) * Store hidden modules in .haddock files again (needed by the haddock library) * Avoid processing boot modules * Pragmas may exist between document comments and declarations * Do not indicate that a constructor argument is unboxed * Fix problem with with non-working links to ghc-prim * Allow referring to a specific section within a module in a module link (#65) * Fixes to the Hoogle backend * Improvements to the haddock library * Many other fixes (including #67, #69, #58, #57) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed in version 2.4.1: * Depend on base 4.* when GHC >= 6.9, otherwise 3.* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed in version 2.4.0: * Add framed view of the HTML documentation * Build with GHC 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 again * Support images in documentation comments again * Small improvements to the Hoogle output * A few bugs has been fixed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed in version 2.3.0: * Support for GHC 6.10.1 * Slightly improved space usage * Fix a bug that made hidden modules show up in the contents & index pages * Fix a bug that made Haddock load modules twice * Improvements to the Hoogle output ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed in version 2.2.2: * Relax version dependency on ghc-paths ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 2.2.1: * Support for GHC 6.8.3 * The Hoogle backend is back, thanks to Neil Mitchell. The plan is to be compatible with the upcoming Hoogle 4 pre-release * Show associated types in the documentation for class declarations * Show type family declarations * Show type equality predicates * Major bug fixes (#1 and #44) * It is no longer required to specify the path to GHC's lib dir * Remove unnecessary parenthesis in type signatures ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 2.1.0: * Fix a bug that made links point to the defining module instead of the "best" one (e.g Int pointing to GHC.Base instead of Data.Int) * Fix a couple of smaller bugs * The representation of DocName was changed in the library * Add a flag --no-warnings for turning off warnings ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 2.0.0.0: * The GHC API is used as the front-end * Haddock now understands all syntax understood by GHC 6.8.2 * Haddock can generate documentation for some of the language extensions in GHC 6.8.2 * Format of module attributes has changed. The only way of specifiying module attributes is via a new OPTIONS_HADDOCK pragma. Example: {-# OPTIONS_HADDOCK hide, prune #-} * Haddock understands literate source files * Add a small library to read Haddock's interface files * Add a flag -B for passing the path to the GHC lib dir * Add a flag --optghc for passing options to GHC * Add a flag --ghc-version for printing the GHC version * Remove --use-package, --allow-missing-html, --ghc-pkg, in favour of only supporting --read-interface * Remove --package flag, the GHC flag -package-name can be used instead * Remove --no-implicit-prelude flag, the GHC flag -XNoImplicitPrelude can be used instead ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.9: * Infix type operators, e.g., first :: a~>a' -> (a,b)~>(a',b) * Add a search box to the index page which automatically narrows the index to the search as you type (thanks to Neil Mitchell). * Add a --ghc-pkg flag * Add a flag --allow-missing-html * URL expansion for %%, %L, %{LINE} * added substitution %{FILE///c} * Lexing of /.../ is now more like '...', in that a / character must be matched by another / character on the same line, otherwise it is treated as a literal '/'. This removes a common source of accidental parse errors in documentation. * Various bugs were fixed. * Cabal 1.2 is now required, and Haddock builds with GHC 6.8.x. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.8: * Haddock has a Cabal build system, and will build on Windows without Cygwin or MSYS. GHC 6.4 or later is required. * New options: --comments-base, --comments-module, --comments-entity for generating links to pages (eg. wiki) for collecting user comments. * New options: --source-base, --source-module, --source-entity for generating links to source code. Haddock now understands {-# LINE #-} pragmas, which means it can figure out the correct name for the source file even if the file is preprocessed. * Haddock generates output for populating the Hoogle search engine. * New markup <<url>> for including images. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.7: * Changes in the way Haddock decides where to direct hyperlinks. Each entity is now assigned a single "home" module, and all hyperlinks are directed to that module. See the docs ("Hyperlinking and re-exported entities") for details. * New options --ignore-all-exports, --hide * New option --use-package for creating documentation that hyperlinks to the HTML documentation for existing packages on your system. It works by querying ghc-pkg for the location of the Haddock interface and HTML for the given package. * Parts of the HTML documentation, notably lists of instances, are now "collapsible" with a +/- button. Also, the contents page is now in the form of tree in which subtrees can be collapsed. * Support for Microsoft DevHelp and HtmlHelp 2.0 formats. * Support for a short description for each module for the contents page. * Compiles with GHC 6.4+ * Various bugfixes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.6: * Implicit parameters, zip comprehensions and 'mdo' are now supported by the parser. * Some lexical bugs were fixed, mainly concerning literal paragraphs next to non-literal paragraphs. * New options: --gen-index, --use-index, --gen-contents and --use-contents, for generting a combined index and contents for several libraries from the appropriate .haddock files. * There is now one index rather than separate Function/Constructor and Type/Class indices. Where a name refers to several entities, these are listed separately in the index. * New option: -v, elicits more verbose warnings. Some warnings are now turned off by default; Haddock should be a little less noisy in general. * Markup for definition lists has been added. See the documentation for details. * New option: --package for setting the package name. The package is listed alongside each module name in the combined contents. * Entities which are re-exported from another package now at least leave a hyperlink in the generated HTML, rather than nothing at all. * Some fixes for bugs which caused incorrect hyperlinks in the generated HTML. In particular, instances should now be linked correctly. * Some aesthetic improvements to the generated HTML. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.5: * Compiles with recent versions of GHC. * A few bugs have been fixed. * New labelling/linking feature (see "Anchors" in the manual). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.4: * Import declarations which list entities in parentheses, or with hiding clauses, are now properly supported. Modulo one or two small infelicities, the full Haskell modules system is now supported. * Haddock is now more flexible about the placing of separators (commas, semicolons) in relation to doc comments. * There is support for generating and reading "interface files" which describe the exports of a set of modules. This is useful for generating documentation which hyperlinks to previously-generated documentation. * Support for generating the extra files required by the Microsoft Help compiler. * New option: --prologue specifies a file of documentation which is placed on the contents page. * Many bugs fixed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.3: * Documentation on individual function arguments is now implemented * Links can be made to identifiers that aren't in scope, by using the fully qualified name. * Instances are collected and listed with the appropriate classes and datatypes (not for derived instances yet). * Single quotes are only interpreted specially when they surround a legal Haskell identifier, otherwise they are treated literally. * Bird-tracked text is now literal. If you want marked-up text in a code block, use the @...@ notation instead. * Various changes to the layout, it generally looks nicer now. * Various bugs fixed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.2: * The [...] markup for typewriter font has been changed to @...@. * Module attributes introduced (see the documentation for details). * {- ... -} style comments may now be used for documentation annotations * Recursive modules are detected and reported as an error. * Existential constructors and rank-N types are now groked by the parser * Some type rendering cleaned up * `abc' is accepted as well as 'abc' to markup an identifier * Several bugs fixed, and error messages improved.