Hello, I will update the description. The documentation is not on hackage yet because the haddock builder only runs a few times a day. That should correct itself in a few hours -- unless the build fails for some reason. However, the API has not changed from the previous version, so these docs are still valid: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/plugins-1.5.1.4 - jeremy On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy@n-heptane.com> wrote:
Hello!
I am pleased to announce the release of plugins-1.5.2.1:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/plugins
The plugins library provides facilities to compile and dynamically load/link Haskell code into a running Haskell application. (The related, plugins-auto package adds support for file watching via inontify and automatic recompilation and reloading, http://hackage.haskell.org/package/plugins).
There are three important changes in this release:
1. Support for GHC 7.0, 7.2. and 7.4. We have not *knowingly* dropped support for GHC 6.12. So, if you still use an older compiler and we broke it.. we might be willing to fix it still :)
2. New maintainer: Don Stewart has graciously allowed me to take over the project. I do not have any immediate plans for big changes. But I do plan to: keep it compiling, apply patches in a timely manner, and deal with other minor bug fixes. I would certainly love to see some major improvements. I believe plugins predates the GHC API and, accordingly, does not use it as well as it could. If someone wanted to give plugins some major love, that would be awesome. While plugins has not much recent development, there are still a lot of people that are using it, or would like to.
3. the source has moved to patch-tag and darcs 2,
http://patch-tag.com/r/stepcut/plugins
patch-tag only supports darcs 2 format repositories, so this forced me to run darcs convert to switch from darcs 1 to darcs 2 format. In the end that is a good thing. The only downside is that I can not directly apply any darcs 1 patches to the repo now. But I doubt there are many floating around anyway. And I can still apply them the hard way.
- jeremy