Thanks :)

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Zeno Gantner <zeno.gant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> thank you for organising this release.
>
> Best regards,
>  Zeno
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Peter Lavender <pla...@internode.on.net> 
> wrote:
>> Original Link:
>> http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_lavender/2011/06/padre-086-has-been-released.html
>>
>> After a long 3 months or so, Padre 0.86 has been rolled up and released into
>> the wild.
>>
>> 0.86 comes with a warning that there are still some lumps to be smoothed
>> out, but with that it also comes with a newer version of Scintilla which
>> means better support of Perl.
>>
>> Thanks to the efforts of Ahmad Zawawi and Mark Dootson, who you often see in
>> the Perl Wx mailing list, this version of Padre now supports an updated
>> version of the Scintilla text editor/control. You can enable the new
>> Scintilla by setting the feature_wx_scintilla configuration parameter in
>> Padre's Tools / Preferences / Advanced dialog.
>>
>> During the time Ahmad was trying to get Wx::Scintilla compiling he mentioned
>> in the #padre irc channel on irc.perl.org, that he wasn't seeing enough
>> tests come through and provided a link to set up Testing/Reporting. After
>> following the link and about 10 minutes reading and setting up, I'm now
>> contributing a little more to the Perl ecosystem by sending reports from
>> each module I install. With the addition of perlbrew allowing you to install
>> more than one version of perl on your system, this is a great opportunity to
>> give back to the community.
>>
>> So it's with great pleasure, and a mild sense of awe that all these people
>> can find time to contribute in such a meaningful way, the list of changes
>> for Padre 0.86:
>>
>> Sebastian Willing committed a number of fixes and improvements over the last
>> few months. Padre now has a fast find dialog that opens up in the bottom of
>> the editor window, it's a bit like the fast find you get in Firefox. There
>> is still some work to be done ironing out the finer points of the current
>> implementation, which we should see in the next release - no, it won't be as
>> long as this release was.
>>
>>     - Handle corrupt padre.db in SessionManager (SEWI)
>>     - Add a test plugin and first tests using that plugin (SEWI)
>>     - Add plugin hooks (SEWI)
>>     - Extent Ctrl-left-mouse-click to modules and files with path (SEWI)
>>     - Fix #1122: Save intuition recognizes more tests (SEWI)
>>     - Add File->Delete menu option (#1179) (SEWI)
>>     - Fix #1182: Crash when enabling a plugin (SEWI)
>>     - Ctrl-F launches the quick search (bottom pane), 2nd time Ctrl-F
>>       launches regular search and 3rd time Ctrl-F launches find in files
>>       which will loose it's own shortcut Ctrl-Shift-F in the future #1223
>> (SEWI)
>>     - Set focus to editor window if search bar is closed (SEWI)
>>     - Set focus to editor after switching panes/tabs (SEWI)
>>     - Add File -> New -> Copy of current document (SEWI)
>>     - Fix "last update" timestamp for sessions (SEWI)
>>     - Share one search termin between FindFast (panel), Find (dialog) and
>>       Find in files (SEWI)
>>     - ESC now closes the find dialog (1st ESC) and the output window (2nd)
>> (SEWI)
>>
>>
>>
>> Adam Kennedy as always manages to get things done no one else is doing, or
>> is too scared to do!
>>
>>     - Avoid running pointless syntax checks for unused documents (ADAMK)
>>     - No longer need a different editor class for the Preferences dialog
>> (ADAMK)
>>     - Reverted commit 13860 which tried to fix ticker #1141 but broken the
>>       directory list at startup at the same time (ADAMK)
>>     - The Preferences dialog now translates options in drop-down boxes
>> (ADAMK)
>>     - Moved various Perl 5 related config options into a unified config
>>       namespace lang_perl5_* (ADAMK)
>>     - Moved various Perl 5 Preferences dialog elements into a single Perl 5
>>       specific tab in preparation for additional future tabs (ADAMK)
>>     - Fixed bug where the Function List scanner was incorrectly matching
>>       __DATA__ or __END__ anywhere in any statement (ADAMK)
>>     - Config file entries referring to values which are not in the valid
>> option
>>       list for a setting will use the default, but not overwrite (ADAMK)
>>     - Upgraded Padre::Wx::Dialog::Text to wxFormBuilder (ADAMK)
>>     - Find and Find in Files now save search options again (ADAMK)
>>     - PluginManager now checks for a defined ->VERSION in plugins to help
>>       make sure they are real modules and don't have mismatching package
>>       statements or similar weird problems (ADAMK)
>>     - Upgraded Padre::Wx::Dialog::Bookmarks to wxFormBuilder (ADAMK)
>>     - Shrunk the code needed to support the "Convert Encoding" commands and
>>       moved it to Padre::Wx::Main, removing the need for a dedicated
>>       "Convert Encoding" dialog (ADAMK)
>>     - Moved all Module::Starter options into module_starter_* (ADAMK)
>>     - A bug in the EOL Mode setup when opening Windows-mode text documents
>>       while the default line endings are set to Unix was resulting in the
>>       corruption of documents into mixed newline (ADAMK)
>>     - Expanding the coverage of "apply" handlers in Padre::Config in
>>       preparation for Padre Sync (ADAMK)
>>     - Unify terminology for the Firefox-like search box to "Find Fast"
>> (ADAMK)
>>     - Fast Find resets term correctly across multiple uses (ADAMK)
>>     - Padre::Project::Perl detects project-wide version correctly (ADAMK)
>>
>>
>> As already mentioned, Ahmad Zawawi has given Padre a more up to date
>> Scintilla, the most notable reason mentioned in the #padre irc channel was
>> that // is now properly handled, however that's not the only reason, as with
>> all software, updates and improvements come along and being stuck with a
>> slow release schedule ( yes slower than Padre's ) meant that it would take a
>> long time before the Scintilla text control would be updated in wxWidgets,
>> or is it Wx... I never know.
>>
>> What's most notable though is this was all done while also getting things
>> sorted out for married life, it wasn't unusual to see Ahmad in irc and then
>> having to head out to do furniture shopping with his bride to be, or other
>> important shopping that needs to be done before a wedding. I'm sure I'm not
>> alone in wishing Ahmad well in surviving the pre-marriage trials, at least
>> we got a new Scintilla though!
>>
>>     - Bumped Wx dependency to 0.9901 to fix the Wx::Button::GetDefaultSize
>>       build bug (AZAWAWI)
>>     - Padre can now use Wx::Scintilla if feature_wx_scintilla is enabled.
>>       This fixes #257: Backport Scintilla Perl lexer for wxWidgets 2.8.10?
>>       (AZAWAWI)
>>     - About dialog displays now the Wx::Scintilla version if it is being
>> used
>>       by Padre (AZAWAWI)
>>     - Padre can use Wx::Scintilla's built-in Perl 6 lexer if Wx::Scintilla
>>       is being used by Padre (AZAWAWI)
>>
>>
>>
>> Gabor Szabo managed to commit some fixes and improvements between really
>> helpful screen casts. Go check them out while you install Padre.
>>
>>     - Add list of escape characters to the Regex Editor (SZABGAB)
>>     - Fix #510, #704, #1178 Closing DocBrowser crashing Padre (SZABGAB)
>>     - Move Outline building to PPIx::EditorTools::Outline 0.12 (SZABGAB)
>>     - Add menu options in View to Fold All and Unfold All (SZABGAB)
>>     - Add menu option to Fold/Unfold where the cursor is now (SZABGAB)
>>     - Move the standard PPILexer to PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer 0.13 (SZABGAB)
>>     - Allow spaces in the path and filename of Perl script and still
>>       be able to run them. #1219 (SZABGAB)
>>     - Regex Editor: Substitution can be toggled and it is off by default
>> (SZABGAB)
>>
>>
>> Zeno Gantner chipped in
>>
>>     - Fix #1124: 'Description' column not displayed when all descriptions
>> empty
>>       (ZENOG)
>>     - Open Resources: do not match path for .t files (ZENOG, found by
>> SZABGAB)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As did a number of others, whose names I haven't committed to memory or have
>> seen for the first time:
>>
>>     - Migration of Style Settings from Menu to Preferences window (CLAUDIO)
>>     - Disable overlay scrollbars on linux (CLAUDIO)
>>     - "toggle comments" button doesn't require text selection (GARU)
>>     - Updated perlopquick.pod (Perl 5 operator quick reference) to latest
>>       version (COWENS, AZAWAWI)
>>     - Fixed wxWidgets 2.8.12 wxAuiNoteBook bug: the window will not carry
>>       updates while it is frozen (MDOOTSON, AZAWAWI, ADAMK)
>>     - Fix #1138: Padre single instance server not working (MJ41)
>>
>>
>> So a big list of changes for Padre 0.86, it's been a while coming and most
>> of that can be laid at my feet, as the the worlds worst player in
>> multiplayer COD Black Ops, I have to admit that any time there was a slight
>> reason NOT to roll out a release I'd slink off and be handed humiliation on
>> the big screen.
>>
>> Thankfully that addiction is starting to wear off and I have promised to be
>> more pushy with the releases.
>>
>> A big thanks to everyone who contributes to Padre, the Perl IDE, whether it
>> be directly by committing changes to the code base or writing document or
>> simply just dropping by the IRC change on irc.perl.org #padre.
>>
>>
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