ErlyBird 0.12.0 released - Erlang IDE based on NetBeans

I'm pleased to announce ErlyBird 0.12.0, an Erlang IDE based on NetBeans.

This is a bug-fix, performance improvement release. This release will only provide all-in-one IDE package, which is in size of 15.9M.

Java JRE 5.0+ is requested.

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

To install:

1. Unzip erlybird-bin-0.12.0-ide.zip to somewhere. For Windows user, execute 'bin/erlybird.exe'. For *nix user, 'bin/erlybird'.
2. Check/set your OTP path. From [Tools]->[Options], click on 'Miscellanous', then expand 'Erlang Installation', fill in the full path of your 'erl.exe' or 'erl' file. For instance: "C:/erl/bin/erl.exe"
3. The default -Xmx option for jvm is set to 256M, if you want to increase it, please open the config file that is located at etc/erlybird.conf, set -J-Xmx of 'default_options'.

When you run ErlyBird first time, the OTP libs will be indexed. The indexing time varies from 30 to 60 minutes deponding on your computer.

Notice: If you have previous version of ErlyBird installed, 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, feedback and bug reports are welcome.

CHANGELOG:

• Performance improvement, especially source code rendering performance.
• Highlighting for unbound/unused variables.
• Completion for macros and records.
• Go to source files of -include and -include_lib.
• Erlang shell window in Mac OS X should work now.
• Various bug fixes.