2011/3/3 JP Moresmau
Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of EclipseFP. It is a real alternative: it works, it is maintained, supported and enhanced. I use it for my own projects, and of course I use it to work on the version of the scion library that ships with it, so we eat our own dogfood :-). A new minor version is going to come out in the next couple of weeks. Why don't you give it a try? We appreciate any feedback!
from http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/eclipsefp2.html I understand that building scion is automatically done, but can be optionally done it it's too long. but from http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/build.html I see that I do have to build it. But : git clone http://github.com/JPMoresmau/scion.git Initialized empty Git repository in /data/code/scion/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 3563, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1310/1310), done. remote: Total 3563 (delta 2137), reused 3342 (delta 1970) Receiving objects: 100% (3563/3563), 580.09 KiB | 395 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (2137/2137), done. david@pcdavid:~/code$ cd scion/ david@pcdavid:~/code/scion$ sudo cabal install [sudo] password for david: Resolving dependencies... cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.12.3 requires Cabal ==1.8.0.6 however Cabal-1.8.0.6 was excluded because scion-0.1.0.8 requires Cabal ==1.6.* I'm not sure what to do now. Trying to install eclipsefp without scion built in case it works, but I'm not used to eclipse, I could use some screenshots to take me step by step through the process. For example, My "project" menu has open grayed, and file/import wants me to choose an import source (I chose Existing project into workspace) but then do I copy projects into workspace ( I did not ) I have eclipse already setup with android development (I have just a toy project, I planned to learn about android programming), when I imported the projects they appeared at the same place. Is there a way not to mix android and haskell projects ? Do I create a new workspace, or assign working sets ? Anyway the projects are in the workspace, and there's 123 warnings; but I can't really tell if the build failed or not. Selecting all the project, and right-click - refresh didn't seem to change anything. But it seems it worked, because step 7 does launch a new eclipse window, and I can see haskell in the preferences. Except that I had an error message regarding scion, and stupid me, clicked ok before I could remember what was written. I tried rebuild scion, but nothing seemed to happen. I closed the first Eclipse window (the one that has all the eclipsefp projects in the package explorer), but then the second one closed too. I lauched eclipse again, run configurations, etc and this time it looks like scion is building (well something happens in the Console tab) While this is building, I'm wondering if there's a way to launch eclise directly in the right "mode". Not having to go to run configurations, etc. Ah, the build failed. Complains that HUnit is missing. So I cabal install it, close my Eclipse window, run configurations again on the first Eclipse window, and the build resumes. .... And build success. Now to open a haskell source file and play with Eclipse. </feedback> David.