[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: plugins 1.5.1. a framework for dynamic extension of Haskell programs

[Don Stewart]

I'm pleased to announce the release 1.5.1 of the Haskell "plugins" library,

    $ cabal install plugins

The "plugins" library provides a comprehensive API for:

    * dynamic loading and linking native Haskell modules
    * runtime compilation and meta-programming in Haskell
    * runtime hotswapping of Haskell code

In short, it provides a framework for dynamic extension of Haskell
programs [1].

This release is due to great work by Manuel Chakravarty, who cleaned up
much of the code and helped migrate it from GHC 6.8 to 6.12.

-- Don


1.  The approach to dynamic extension developed in the library is described in:

  * Plugging Haskell In. André Pang, Don Stewart, Sean Seefried, and
    Manuel M. T. Chakravarty. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop
    on Haskell, pages 10-21. ACM Press, 2004

  * Dynamic Applications From the Ground Up. Don Stewart and Manuel M.
    T. Chakravarty. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on
    Haskell, pages 27-38. ACM Press, 2005

  * Dynamic Extension of Typed Functional Languages, Don Stewart.
    University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. 2010