This repository contains a pretty-printing library, a set of API's that provides a way to easily print out text in a consistent format of your choosing. This is useful for compilers and related tools. The library was originally designed by John Hughes's and has since been heavily modified by Simon Peyton Jones.
It is based on the pretty-printer outlined in the paper 'The Design of a Pretty-printing Library' in Advanced Functional Programming, Johan Jeuring and Erik Meijer (eds), LNCS 925 http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/pretty.ps
The library uses the Cabal build system, so building is simply a matter of running 'cabal install' or 'cabal configure && cabal build'.
Usually two branches are maintained for Pretty development:
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master: This branch is generally kept in a stable state and is where release are pulled and made from. The reason for this is GHC includes the pretty library and tracks the master branch by default so we don't want experimental code being pulled into GHC at times.
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next: This branch is the general development branch.