[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] ghc-mod-5.6.0.0: Supporting GHC 8.0 and Cabal 1.24

I'm pleased to announce the release of ghc-mod 5.6.0.0! What's new? =========== * Support for GHC 8.0 and Cabal 1.24 Nothing too spectacular to report here, just regular maintenance work. * Type Contexts fixed Thanks to @Lierdakil `ghc-mod type` now finally displays type (class) constraints in most cases. This has been on the TODO list for a very long while now, going back to at least GHC 7.8. GHC's API just doesn't have a nice, simple, way for doing this and we had to resort to manually walking the typechecked AST while collecting constraints in various places. * Various bug fixes and smaller improvements From the change log: * Merge #737, `map-file` caching issues * Merge #767, Add `browse` option to show symbol "parents" * Fix #438, Case splitting not working * Fix #790, Don't try to use 'cabal' or 'stack' when it's not installed What is ghc-mod? ================ ghc-mod is both a back-end program for enhancing editors and other development environments with support for Haskell as well as a library for abstracting the black magic incantations required to use the GHC API in various environments, especially Cabal and Stack projects. The library is used by projects like HaRe[1], and haskell-ide-engine[2] Getting ghc-mod =============== GitHub: https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-mod Editor frontends: - Emacs (native): https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod https://github.com/iquiw/company-ghc - Vim: https://github.com/eagletmt/ghcmod-vim https://github.com/eagletmt/neco-ghc - Atom: https://github.com/atom-haskell/ide-haskell Known issues ============ For issues other than the ones mentioned below visit our issue tracker: https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod/issues Frequently reported issues -------------------------- ghc-mod once compiled is bound to one version of GHC since we link against the GHC API library. This used to not be a very big problem but since Stack made it exceedingly easy for users to use more than one version of GHC without even knowing the number of problems in this area has exploded. We are tracing the issue in the following issue: https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod/issues/615 (Support switching GHC versions without recompiling ghc-mod) If you do notice any other problems please report them: https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod/issues/new ---- [1]: https://github.com/alanz/HaRe [2]: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-ide-engine -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20160801/39bd1460/attachment.sig>