[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Leksah 0.8

This is our official 0.8 release. Anyone still using 0.6 should upgrade. Anyone using an earlier 0.8 release should upgrade too (and delete ~/.leksah-0.8/prefs.lkshp and ~/.leksah-0.8/prefscoll.lkshp). There's lots of new stuff, so please have a look if you can. Let us know which of the things that aren't there you think we should work on next. Some changes in 0.8: * Workspaces (for working on projects with multiple packages) * Better metadata (includes nonexported definitions in workspace packages) * Optional downloading of prebuilt metadata for packages (you can turn this off in the first start dialog) * Better completion (keywords, language extensions, module name, non exported definitions) * Split in a client and server part (Client part doesn't import ghc-api) * Compiles with GHC 6.12 * Many bug fixes and little enhancements * Unstable and very limited Yi mode (vim bindings only for now) Not new but worth mentioning: * <Ctrl> <Enter> evaluates current line or selection in GHCi * <Ctrl> R adds missing imports To building Leksah yourself: * You need GHC 6.10 or 6.12 installed. The preferred way is current Haskell platform. * You need Gtk2Hs including the GtkSourceView2 package. (Currently gtk2hs has no release for 6.12. On Linux we suggest you use the darcs version and install it via cabal install) * cabal install leksah * leksah Making a Gtk application look nice on Windows and OS X is not easy so we recommend using one of these prebuilt binaries: http://leksah.org/packages/leksah-0.8.0.6.exe (Windows) http://leksah.org/packages/leksah-0.8.0.6.dmg (OS X) (Installation of gtk2hs for the development of gtk2hs apps is not done by these installers. Please consult http://leksah.org/download.html for more details about installation! Background information can be found in the Leksah manual: http://leksah.org/leksah_manual.pdf. Known bugs and problems: * If you have installed an earlier 0.8 version please delete your ~/.leksah-0.8/prefs.lkshp and ~/.leksah-0.8/prefscoll.lkshp * The server may occasionally allocate much memory, which has been observed on Windows. You can simply restart leksah (of leksah-server if you have started it separately) * leksah don't run with ghc-6.12.2 (http://http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4038) Have fun Jürgen & Hamish