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| author | Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> | 2022-07-21 12:27:19 +1000 |
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| committer | Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> | 2022-07-21 12:27:19 +1000 |
| commit | 32ac0f03b4259fc8eebba9bb3a2a46d23122a43b (patch) | |
| tree | a371fb9c5a3f78e6f53c66d70e1255fdc71bba4d /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | cd17128898089450bb21790fd1864dc08fd4ddbc (diff) | |
| parent | 2368e9329e6600b46000abd24ec00b7e27bcae75 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/ghc-9.4' into ghc-9.4
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 4435252a..8b47ebfc 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -36,22 +36,26 @@ cd haddock ### Git Branches -Pull requests are to be opened against the `main` branch, from which are forked -GHC-specific branches (like `ghc-9.2`, `ghc-9.4`, etc). +If your patch consists of glue code and interface changes with GHC, please +open a Pull Request targeting the `ghc-head` branch. + +Otherwise, for improvements to the documentation generator, +please base your pull request on the current GHC version branch +(`ghc-9.0` for instance). The PR will be forward-ported to `ghc-head` +so that documentation built within GHC can benefit from it. ### Building the packages #### Using `cabal` -First update the package list: +Requires cabal `>= 3.4` and the latest build of GHC: + +You can install the latest build of GHC via ghcup using this command: ```bash -cabal v2-update +ghcup install ghc -u "https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/ghc-x86_64-deb9-linux-integer-simple.tar.xz?job=validate-x86_64-linux-deb9-integer-simple" head ``` -This is needed as haddock@ghc-9.2 uses the -[ghc.head](https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/head.hackage/) package repository. - ```bash cabal v2-build all --enable-tests cabal v2-test all @@ -70,4 +74,4 @@ cabal v2-test html-test latex-test hoogle-test hypsrc-test \ ``` [SSCCE]: http://sscce.org/ -[CoC]: ./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md + |