Moving Haddock *development* out of GHC tree

[Carter Schonwald]

good points by all :)


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk
> wrote:

> On 08/14/2014 01:43 AM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> > one thing I wonder about is how should we approach noting
> >  "theres a new language constructor, we should figure out a good way to
> > present it in haddock" in this work flow?
> > because the initial haddocks presentation might just be a strawman till
> > someone thinks about it carefully right?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <
> hvriedel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2014-08-14 at 00:09:40 +0200, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> I don't know what the GHC branch name will be yet. ‘ghc-head’ makes
> most
> >>> sense but IIRC Herbert had some objections as it had been used in the
> >>> past for something else, but maybe he can pitch in.
> >>
> >> I had no objections at all to that name, 'ghc-head' is fine with me :-)
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> If there's more than one reasonable way then there's going to be
> strawman along the way somewhere anyway but we can at least delegate
> that until later. As I mention in the OP, there's at least no need for
> me to worry about it until it's finished on the GHC side although I'll
> no doubt be aware of it sooner than that.
>
> The PatternSynonyms stuff is an example where the implementor also
> stepped up to putting in support into Haddock for rendering. At the same
> time, the implementation has changed multiple times along the way
> creating hassle for both parties so perhaps in the future it's better to
> simply make sure Haddock still compiles and works but perhaps delegate
> everything else to closer to the release.
>
> In the end, it does not matter if Haddock can't display a bleeding edge
> feature until it's going out as a release.
>
> --
> Mateusz K.
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