ErlyBird 0.15.0 Released - An Erlang IDE based on NetBeans

Updated(Sep 23): Known issues:

• Formmater: String literal that is broken to multiple lines will be reformatted, this should be fixed. (Done in trunk)
• 'Run project' does not work yet.
• When more than one projects are opened concurrently, 'Go to declaration' for remote function may not work. You can close other projects when encountered.

I'm pleased to announce ErlyBird 0.15.0, an Erlang IDE based on NetBeans. This is a major features release. This release will only provide all-in-one IDE package, which is in size of 17.6M.

CHANGELOG:

• Pretty formatter (Ctrl+Shift+F).
• Variables and functions occurrences mark.
• Better brace matching highlighting, such as for 'try-catch-end', 'if-end' etc.
• "-import" syntax now works in all cases, that means RabbitMQ's code will be parsed correctly.
• Various bugs fixes.

As NetBeans 6.0 beta1 was just released, I hope ErlyBird has got more stable also.

Java JRE 5.0+ is required.

To download, please go to: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192439

To install:

1. Unzip erlybird-bin-0.15.0-ide.zip to somewhere.
2. Make sure 'erl.exe' or 'erl' is under your environment path
3. For Windows user, execute 'bin/erlybird.exe'. For *nix user, 'bin/erlybird'.
4. Check/set your OTP path. From [Tools]->[Options], click on 'Erlang', then 'Erlang Installation' tab, fill in the full path of your 'erl.exe' or 'erl' file. For instance: "C:/erl/bin/erl.exe"
5. The default -Xmx option for jvm is set to 256M, ErlyBird now works good with less memory, such as -Xmx128M. If you want to increase/decrease it, please open the config file that is located at etc/erlybird.conf, set -J-Xmx of 'default_options'.

When run ErlyBird first time, the OTP libs will be indexed. The indexing time varies from 10 to 30 minutes deponding on your computer.

Notice: If you have previous version of ErlyBird 0.12.0+ installed, you can keep your old cache files, otherwise, please delete the old cache files which are located at:

• *nix: "${HOME}/.erlybird/dev"
• mac os x: "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/erlybird/dev"
• windows: "C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\.erlybird\dev" or some where

The status of ErlyBird is still Alpha, feedbacks and bug reports are welcome.