"template-less" raw backend for haddock docs

[gbaz]

This is an enhancement idea -- a raw backend, such as json, so that after-the-fact services like haddock can customize their rendering to integrate the generated docs with the rest of the site.

This would open up a lot of nice possibilities, although I fear integrating a full json library into haddock might be a bit too much of a dependency...

@davean is also interested in this idea, and no promises but I might try to find some time to hack on this too...

[hvr]

@gbaz fwiw, just emitting JSON w/o aeson is trivial, see e.g. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/nix-local-build/cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Utils/Json.hs

[davean]

One thing that makes this moderately harder is across-version
comparability. You don't want to stop being able to read the old docs
because haddock gets updated and adds features.

At least in an ideal world. Even just the current version support would
improve what one can do with the docs.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

@gbaz https://github.com/gbaz fwiw, just emitting JSON w/o aeson is
trivial, see e.g.
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/nix-local-build/cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Utils/Json.hs

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