purescript / purescript/pursuit

Show earliest version that a function/type is in

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Description

On Hackage, you often see "Since 1.1.0" and so on in function documentation, added manually by the package author. It would be nice for Pursuit to produce this automatically.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing how Pursuit obtains package and API documentation metadata, then determine whether historical package versions are available; done would mean showing the earliest version in which each function or type appears.

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Assessment

Tech stack
haskell
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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