[Haskell-cafe] ANN: haddock-2.16.1

[Matthew Pickering]

The curious can see an example of this new hyperlinked source here[1].

Great work Łukasz and Mateusz!

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-exactprint-0.3/docs/src/Language.Haskell.GHC.ExactPrint.html

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
<fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're glad to announce Haddock 2.16.1. It is mostly a bugfix release: I
> inline the changelog at the bottom. It should work fine with 7.10.x GHC
> family. The packages are already on Hackage: haddock for the executable,
> haddock-api for the guts and use from Haskell and haddock-library which
> is the comment parser.
>
> It should also be shipping with GHC 7.10.2.
>
> I think two things are worth mentioning before:
>
> * The pending mathjax PR[1] is going to be included in future release of
> Haddock. As it is likely to break the interface file version, I am
> putting it off a bit to bundle with other possibly interface-breaking
> changes.
>
> * Our GSOC student has successfully completed first part of his
> project[2]. It involves native source code highlighting and perhaps more
> excitingly, source hyperlinking: you should now be able to click on
> identifiers to be taken to their definitions. This change is not in
> 2.16.1 as it is rather recent so we erred on the side of safety when
> picking what to release with GHC 7.10.2. You can try it by building
> current Haddock master, should work with 7.10.x family.
>
> As usual, if you want to contribute, please do so on GitHub. We're also
> on IRC under #haddock.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Changes in version 2.16.1
>
>  * Don't default to type constructors for out-of-scope names (#253 and
>    #375)
>
>  * Fix Hoogle display of constructors (#361)
>
>  * Fully qualify names in Hoogle instances output (#263)
>
>  * Output method documentation in Hoogle backend (#259)
>
>  * Don't print instance safety information in Hoogle (#168)
>
>  * Expand response files in arguments (#285)
>
>  * Build the main executable with -threaded (#399)
>
>  * Use SrcSpan of declarations for inferred type sigs (#207)
>
>  * Fix cross-module instance locations (#383)
>
>  * Fix alignment of Source link for instances in Firefox (#384)
>
> [1]: https://github.com/haskell/haddock/pull/397
> [2]: https://github.com/haskell/haddock/pull/410
>
> --
> Mateusz K.
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