Changelog of @hackage/th-desugar 1.5.4

`th-desugar` release notes

Thanks to David Fox (@ddssff), sweetening now tries to use more of TH's Type constructors.
Also thanks to David Fox, depend usefully on the th-orphans package.

There is now a facility to register a list of Dec that internal reification should use when necessary. This avoids the user needing to break up their definition across different top-level splices. See withLocalDeclarations. This has a side effect of changing the Quasi typeclass constraint on many functions to be the new DsMonad constraint. Happily, there are DsMonad instances for Q and IO, the two normal inhabitants of Quasi.
"Match flattening" is implemented! The functions scExp and scLetDec remove any nested pattern matches.
More is now exported from Language.Haskell.TH.Desugar for ease of use.
expand can now expand closed type families! It still requires that the type to expand contain no type variables.
Support for standalone-deriving and default signatures in GHC 7.10. This means that there are now two new constructors for DDec.
Support for static expressions, which are new in GHC 7.10.

expand functions now consider open type families, as long as the type to be expanded has no free variables.

Added Language.Haskell.TH.Desugar.Lift, which provides Lift instances for all of the th-desugar types, as well as several Template Haskell types.
Added applyDExp and applyDType as convenience functions.

All Decs can now be desugared, to the new DDec type.
Sweetening Decs that do not exist in GHC 7.6.3- works on a "best effort" basis: closed type families are sweetened to open ones, and role annotations are dropped.
Infos can now be desugared. Desugaring takes into account GHC bug #8884, which meant that reifying poly-kinded type families in GHC 7.6.3- was subtly wrong.
There is a new function flattenDValD which takes a binding like let (a,b) = foo and breaks it apart into separate assignments for a and b.
There is a new Desugar class with methods desugar and sweeten. See the documentation in Language.Haskell.TH.Desugar.
Variable names that are distinct in desugared code are now guaranteed to have distinct answers to nameBase.
Added a new function getRecordSelectors that extracts types and definitions of record selectors from a datatype definition.

Update to work with type Pred = Type in GHC 7.9. This changed the DPred type for all GHC versions, though.

Generalized interface to allow any member of the Qausi class, instead of just Q.

Added module Language.Haskell.TH.Desugar.Expand, which allows for expansion of type synonyms in desugared types.
Added Show, Typeable, and Data instances to desugared types.
Fixed bug where an as-pattern in a let statement was scoped incorrectly.
Changed signature of dsPat to be more specific to as-patterns; this allowed for fixing the let scoping bug.
Created new functions dsPatOverExp and dsPatsOverExp to allow for easy desugaring of patterns.
Changed signature of dsLetDec to return a list of DLetDecs.
Added dsLetDecs for convenience. Now, instead of using mapM dsLetDec, you should use dsLetDecs.