Peter Robinson (listener@thaldyron.com) wrote:
Hi, my intention when writing the Haskell Plugin for KDevelop was mainly to increase the language's publicity, since KDevelop 3.0 is the most popular and mature IDE for Linux/Unix. I know that most of you prefer to use your favourite editor but the real audience are the C/C++/Java/Php/Python/SQL/... programmers who probably haven't heard much about Haskell yet and would like to give it a try.
That's great. Although I have not tried it yet, I heard it's possible to embed vim in a new KDevelop, and Haskell plugin is definitely wonderful way to increase language's publicity.
Things like a background parser that checks the syntax continuously can be implemented quite straightforward in KDevelop as soon as i've got a working C++ parser for Haskell. Syntax highlighting is provided by the Kate Plugin.
When asked on KDevelop forum, I got the reply that Haskell plugin is not in active development, but it looks like you are still behind it, isn't it?
A better integration of Hugs or GHCi is possible (via plugins). At the moment only the GHC plugin that allows the user to build and run the files in the project is implemented.
When tried KDevelop rc1, I got the error that "language plugin is not found" and on KDevelop forum it is stated that it won't/isn't included in final release. So, can we expect new features in KDevelop's Haskell support? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour@mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493