[Haskell-cafe] ghc-mod v5.0.0

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

Yes, seen it already. And it is on hackernews too, just saw on the twitter
feed


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I found Alejandro's blog post:
>
>
> http://serras-haskell-gsoc.blogspot.jp/2014/08/summer-of-code-on-emacs.html
>
> --Kazu
>
>
> > Hi cafe,
> >
> > We are happy to announce that ghc-mod v5.0.0 has been released.
> > Highlights of this version is as follows:
> >
> > - ghc-mod v4.x.y is suffering from the space leak of GHC
> >   7.8.x(*1). So, ghc-modi consumes huge memory. ghc-modi v5.0.0
> >   consumes much less memory thanks to workaround.
> >
> > - Alejandro Serrano merges his results of Google Summer of Code. He
> >   implements case splitting and sophisticated type hole handling.
> >   I believe that he will write an article on his results but
> >   I also updated the manual of Emacs fronted. (*2)
> >
> > - Daniel Gröber brushed up the internal code by bringing the GhcMod
> >   monad. So, the API of ghc-mod drastically changed. If you are users
> >   of the ghc-mod library, you should check its document.
> >
> > The main purpose of this release is to show the results of GSoC to
> > everyone. This is a snapshot release and its API would change in the
> > future.
> >
> > I thank two guys above since they worked hard and did good jobs.
> > We hope that everyone enjoys v5.0.0.
> >
> > (*1) https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9314
> > (*2) http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/ghc-mod/en/emacs.html
> >
> > --Kazu
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