2008/5/15 Claus Reinke
Feel free to CC me or the ticket with things like that. I'll be IMHO, trying to support a semantics- and comment-preserving roundtrip in (pretty . parse) would be a good way to start (David says he's going to look at the extracting comments/pragmas part, but they still need to be put back in during pretty printing). It sounds simple, and if it is, it will enable a lot more usage of the GHC API; and if it turns out not to be simple, you'll have a first sign of what you're up against, and can adjust your expectations!-)
I also hope you are in touch with Chaddaï - the port of HaRe to the GHC API did not make it as a GSoC project, but I understand he is going to do some work in this direction anyway.
- http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1886 (GHC API should preserve and provide access to comments)
Well not in touch until now, I was waiting a little bit to see in which direction this project is going to evolve. There's plenty of interesting improvement that one could bring to GHC API. For my project of course, I'm very interested in the preserving comment part. I intended to make it independantly, like Haddock do now, but if the GHC API was to get native support for it, it would be great (for all kind of others applications too). I'll keep in touch. -- Chaddaï