Scala 2.7.2.RC1 is now available

[Antonio Cunei]

We are pleased to announce today the first Release Candidate
of the new and much-anticipated version of Scala: version 2.7.2.RC1.

To celebrate this new landmark, we are also rolling out a new website
for the Scala language; as a further addition, the Eclipse Scala plugin
contributors are also releasing the first stable release of their code,
aligned with Scala 2.7.2.RC1.

What's new?

* Generic Signatures

   The Scala compiler now generates Java's generic
   signatures, so that Scala generics are visible to Java.

* Java/Scala Combined Projects
   The compiler can now parse (but not translate) Java source
   files. This makes it possible to have mixed Java/Scala
   projects with recursive dependencies between them.
   In such a project, you can submit first all the Java and Scala
   sources to the Scala compiler. In a second step, the Java
   sources are compiled using the Scala generated .class files
   and the Scala sources are compiled again using the Java
   generated .class files.

* ScalaSwing
   Another major addition is the first beta version of the
   ScalaSwing library, which is now bundled with the distribution.

* Scala Collections
   There are new implementations of collection classes, contributed
   by David MacIver: IntMap, LongMap, and TreeHashMap (immutable),
   ArrayStack and OpenHashMap (mutable).


You can download Scala 2.7.2.RC1 from our Download Page at
http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads

--
The Scala Team

[David Bernard-3]

Hi,

The jars are availables on http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases
repository (version is 2.7.2-rc1 (in lower case)).

/davidB (scala-tools.org administrator)

[Ismael Juma]

Hi,

David Bernard <david.bernard.31@...> writes:
> Hi,
>
> The jars are availables on http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases
> repository (version is 2.7.2-rc1 (in lower case)).

Thanks for doing this, but Maven complains about a missing module:

org.scala-lang:scala-decoder:jar:2.7.2-rc1

Regards,
Ismael

[David Bernard-3]

Hargs :(

You're right, the jar is no longer available (in the distrib) but the
maven-scala-plugin try to download it, I'll publish a new version
ASAP.

/davidB

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Ismael Juma <mlists@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> David Bernard <david.bernard.31@...> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The jars are availables on http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases
>> repository (version is 2.7.2-rc1 (in lower case)).
>
> Thanks for doing this, but Maven complains about a missing module:
>
> org.scala-lang:scala-decoder:jar:2.7.2-rc1
>
> Regards,
> Ismael
>
>

[Geoffrey Alan Washburn-4]

Mikko Peltonen wrote:

>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Antonio Cunei <scala_ml@...
> <mailto:scala_ml@...>> wrote:
>
>
>     * ScalaSwing
>      Another major addition is the first beta version of the
>      ScalaSwing library, which is now bundled with the distribution.
>
>
> Should ScalaSwing classes be in the 2.7.2-rc1 distribution? Can't find
> them in the download.
>

They were accidentally omitted from the primary distribution.  I am told
they were correctly included with the Eclipse plugin release candidate,
so you could use that if you don't want to build the current 2.7.2
branch yourself.  Alternately, there should be a new release candidate
that does include ScalaSwing in the next week or so.