id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
1880,Unify flag descriptions to generate both docs and code,simonmar,,"We want to specify all of GHC's flags in one place, and from there

 * Generate the flag reference section of the documentation
 * Generate the code to parse the command-line
 * Allow flags to be deprecated, generating a warning
 * Have an option to list all the flags that GHC supports (see #1226)
   for use in command-line completion
 * Generate the man page
 * Completion in GHCi

This ticket replaces part of #1226.",task,new,lowest,7.6.2,Compiler,6.8.1,,,claus,Unknown/Multiple,Unknown/Multiple,None/Unknown,Unknown,,,,
