[Haskell-cafe] SoC: Port Haddock to use GHC

[Nicolas Frisby]

One of my questions surely should have been:

5) Does haddock.ghc build? Does it work?

I succeeded in getting it compiled (I filled in the missing data
definition of DocOptions, hacked it to always use [] for the options
anyway, manually set the compilerPath, and maybe more). Unfortunately
it dies upon start-up: the GHC sub-session is panicing by accessing
the static options global variable too early. This is over my head
concerning GHC and Cabal internals.

I'm really eager to use this, so I can help if need be. Thanks.

On 2/15/07, David Waern <davve at dtek.chalmers.se> wrote:
>
> 15 feb 2007 kl. 18.19 skrev Nicolas Frisby:
>
> > I am very ready for a Haddock that can swallow infix typenames.
>
> Yes, Haddock-GHC can do that.
>
> > In dons's recent overview of the last SoC, a darcs repo for Waern's
> > project was listed. I jumped at the link but couldn't find much
> > documentation (i.e. the README file is GHC's, not the SoC project's).
> > Some Google queries followed with no success.
> >
>
> That repo is the GHC branch that I was working on, and it's not
> relevant anymore, since it has been merged into GHC HEAD. The
> repository for the actual program is at: http://darcs.haskell.org/SoC/
> haddock.ghc
>
> > My questions for Waern or anyone else who knows where to look:
> >
> > 1) Where to look for more complete documentation?
>
> There is no special documentation for Haddock-GHC yet.
>
> > 2) Is the implementation integrated into GHC yet? GHC head?
> > Separate repo?
>
> Yes, it is integrated in GHC HEAD.
>
> > 3) What Haddock features are supported as of yet?
>
> Most of the things that was supported in Haddock in August, except
> for e.g. Hoogle output and such things.
>
> > 4) Is it still actively developed.
>
> Yep, although not so fast :)
>
> /David
>
>