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 <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
