[erlang-questions] [ANN] erlide 0.5.0 has been released

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hello everybody!

We have been working hard to fix bugs and add new functionality and
today we are proud to be able to release version 0.5.0! Now you can do
your Erlang development with less hassle, and the fun part is that
there's a lot more to come in the pipeline (stay tuned! -- did someone
just whispered "refactoring"? :-).

The project's site is at http://erlide.org

The Eclipse update site is at http://erlide.org/update (or the older
http://erlide.sourceforge.net/update)

For those that have been using out unstable releases, there are only
few new things. For the others, a list of some of the new things can
be found in the ChangeLog (below).

IMPORTANT: Please note that this is the last release that targets
Eclipse 3.3. The answers (or more exactly, lack of) to our previous
questions about which versions we should target tell us that everybody
is running 3.4 or newer. If you're still stuck with 3.3 and will need
continued support, please contact us.

Enjoy!
/Vlad and Jakob


List of user visible changes between 0.4.3 and 0.5.0

	  Added external include path settings file for erlang projects
	  (just like external modules file)

	  fixed bug when build backend was called "erlide"

	  Indentation uses tabs, indents only affected functions, and is
	  cleaned up a bit

	  fixes around backend startup and ide backend

      Fixed autocompletion so that external modules can be completed

      Fixed a slight oversight when accessing external files (it should be
	  created and have the erlang nature)

	  Added error marker if a file could not be compiled at all
	  (compiler crashed or no backend)

      Auto-completion didn't work when both default_external_modules and
	  external_modules were specified (open did the right thing).

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/230-Sorting-in-outline-should-not-affect-clauses

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/167-Add-completion-of-variable-names

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/233-Indent-breaks-when-constructing-binary-and-using-$-notation-to-get-ascii-code-for-character-

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/236-Debugger---show-records-as-records-in-Variables-view

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/214: updated jinterface to R12

	  optimized RPC performance by caching call signatures

	  New, fancier, better, smarter reconciler!
	  - Scans all changes after one delay
	  - Parses after all changes, not for each one of them (no more
	  shuffling after undo or find/replace)
	  - Method to reconcile without delay and wait for it, so model is
	  up-to-date, e.g. for model commands like Completion or Open

	  Small improvement of dirty region handling, works better with
	  backspace

	  Autoindent now also uses tabs

	  Honour the Preferences -> General / Editors / Text Editors /
	  Insert spaces for tabs checkbox, when indenting, if it's checked,
	  use only spaces.

	  Restored reset handling in reconciler, so it doesn't reconcile
	  during lengthy typing, but afterwards

	  added runtimeVersion project preference, to allow not specifying
	  a runtime name (that are user specific)

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/127-Goto-variable-definition

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/184-Show-parameter-names-for-code-completed-functions

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/184-Show-parameter-names-for-code-completed-functions

	  beautified edoc display and removed classes that were copied from jface

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/197--go-to-definition--should-detect-even-M-F-N-constructs

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/196-New-project-wizard---exception-if-include-field-is-empty

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/122-Add-support-for-R12--type-and--spec-annotations

      Handles 'after' in 'try'. (Part of
http://erlide.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/251-indent---more-bugs

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/259-completion-problem

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/251-indent---more-bugs

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/246-completion-proposals-don-t-work-for-quoted-module-name-

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/254-folding---preferences-don-t-work

	  updated docs with installation instructions for eclipse 3.4

	  http://erlide.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/105-Allow-outline-for-external-erlang-files

	  Type specs were ugly in outline

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/167-Add-completion-of-variable-names
	
	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/260-navigation-problems

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/262-folding---initial-folding-done-while-typing--annoying

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/258-outline-disappearing-again

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/86-Stopping-Erlang-launches

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/266: make backend
restart after crash

	  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/267-indentation-error