ghc-7.6.2 breaks haddock interface...
Simon Hengel
sol at typeful.net
Wed Dec 12 12:38:05 CET 2012
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:30:10PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2012, 12:15 +0100 schrieb Simon Hengel:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:20:35AM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > there really a change to the on-disk format of the .haddock files?
> >
> > Yes, the on-disk format changed, hence the interface version was bumped
> > from 21 to 22. But Haddock can still read files with interface version
> > 21 (see [1]).
>
> great! I was considering asking for backwards compatibility, but then
> tought it might be a bit too much.
>
> For now I’ll hardcode the information that haddock support interface
> version 21 in our package metadata, but this is error prone. Would you
> mind adding an option akin to
> $ haddock --interface-version
> that would print all versions (e.g. space separated)?
>
> $ haddock --compatible-interface-versions
> 21 22
Should be easy. Can you open a ticket? (of course, patches are always
welcome ;)
Cheers,
Simon
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