[Haskell-cafe] Superset of Haddock and Markdown

[Malcolm Wallace]

On 20 Nov 2011, at 22:20, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

> On 21 November 2011 03:19, David Fox <ddssff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Ertugrul Soeylemez <es at ertes.de> wrote:
>>> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Wasn't there talk at one stage of integrating pandoc into haddock?
>>> 
>>> I wouldn't mind Haddock depending on Pandoc, at least optionally
>>> (-fmarkdown-comments).  Taking this to its conclusion you could easily
>>> have syntax-highlighted code examples in Haddock documentations and
>>> allow alternative output formats.
>> 
>> I'm not sure the pandoc license (GPL) is compatible with the GHC license.
> 
> Do you mean because GHC ships with a Haddock binary?

GHC also ships with a GPL'd gcc binary, on at least some platforms.

Regards,
    Malcolm