Changelog of @hackage/haddock 2.6.0

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 <> 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.