Haddock version during build

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16:20PM +0200, David Waern wrote:
> 2008/6/16 Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>:
> > Of course, you could argue that it should be separately upgradable, but
> > even then the .haddock format is fixed, and you can't rehaddock the
> > bootlibs with the upgraded haddock anyway (unless you bundle the
> > sources, in which case you wouldn't need haddock during the build).
> 
> In theory, one could try to make Haddock compatible with older
> .haddock files, the way the Haddock 0.x series work. Then one wouldn't
> have to rehaddock the boot libraries after a Haddock upgrade.

But if you don't rehaddock them then their haddocks still have that bug
that you fixed, or still miss that feature that you added. (Unless the
bug/feature only affects features that the bootlibs don't use).


Thanks
Ian