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diff --git a/hcar.tex b/hcar.tex deleted file mode 100644 index e5ca8a20..00000000 --- a/hcar.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,65 +0,0 @@ -% Haddock-DH.tex -\begin{hcarentry}[updated]{Haddock} -\label{haddock} -\report{David Waern}%11/10 -\status{experimental, maintained} -\makeheader - -Haddock is a widely used documentation-generation tool for Haskell -library code. Haddock generates documentation by parsing and typechecking -Haskell source code directly and including documentation supplied by the -programmer in the form of specially-formatted comments in the source code -itself. Haddock has direct support in Cabal~\cref{cabal}, and is used to -generate the documentation for the hierarchical libraries that come with GHC, -Hugs, and nhc98 -(\url{http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries}) as well as -the documentation on Hackage. - -The latest release is version 2.8.1, released September 3 2010. - -\Separate -Recent changes: -\begin{itemize} -\item HTML backend completely rewritten to generate semantically rich XHTML - using the xhtml package. -\item New default CSS based on the color scheme chosen for the new Haskell - wiki, with a pull-out tab for the synopsis. -\item Theme engine based on CSS files. Themes can be switched from the - header menu. -\item Markup support for executable examples/unit-tests. -\item Addition of a LaTeX backend. -\item Additions and changes to the Haddock API. -\item Various smaller new features and bug fixes. -\end{itemize} - -\FuturePlans -\begin{itemize} -\item Although Haddock understands many GHC language extensions, we would like it to -understand all of them. Currently there are some constructs you cannot comment, -like GADTs and associated type synonyms. - -\item Error messages is an area with room for improvement. We would like Haddock -to include accurate line numbers in markup syntax errors. - -\item On the HTML rendering side we want to make more use of Javascript in order to make -the viewing experience better. The frames-mode could be improved this way, for -example. - -\item Finally, the long term plan is to split Haddock into one program that creates -data from sources, and separate backend programs that use that data via the -Haddock API. This will scale better, not requiring adding new backends to Haddock -for every tool that needs its own format. -\end{itemize} - -\FurtherReading -\begin{compactitem} -\item Haddock's homepage: -\url{http://www.haskell.org/haddock/} - -\item Haddock's developer Wiki and Trac: -\url{http://trac.haskell.org/haddock} - -\item Haddock's mailing list: -\url{haddock@@projects.haskell.org} -\end{compactitem} -\end{hcarentry} |