Haddock with GHC 8

[Matthew Pickering]

Hi Dominic, I am giving it a shot.

Best wishes,

Matt

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Dominic Steinitz <dominic at steinitz.org> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I’ll give it a shot if no-one else volunteers but rebasing git is not an
> area of my expertise (if indeed I have any) as my colleagues will tell you.
> I will have some time to attempt this between Christmas and New Year.
> Hopefully that will fit in with your target of mid-January but I will almost
> certainly need help and advice.
>
> Dominic.
>
>
> On 14/12/2015 13:43, Ben Gamari wrote:
>>
>> Dominic Steinitz <dominic at steinitz.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I submitted a PR for Haddock to support mathjax on 16 May. As I
>>> understand it, the maintainer of Haddock did not wish to apply it
>>> immediately as it would change interface files (although I have to
>>> admit I don’t know what this entails).
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to release a new version of Haddock along with GHC
>>> 8?
>>>
>> See [1].
>>
>> Currently we are waiting for someone to step up to rebase the `ghc-head`
>> branch onto `master`. Given the amount of churn that both GHC and
>> Haddock have experienced in the last year, this will be a non-trivial
>> amount of effort. Perhaps you would be willing to give it a shot?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>> [1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-December/010681.html
>
>
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