Announcing Shake v0.14

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,

I've just pushed Shake v0.14 to Hackage. There's a full blog post
here: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/announcing-shake-014.html.
The highlights are:

* Everyone should start using %> instead of *>, since *> will clash
with the Prelude in GHC 7.10 (but Shake is probably going to export *>
for years to come).

* If you are on Windows, the Shake FilePath module will start using \
instead of /. It shouldn't matter since need now normalises FilePath
values, but watch out. If this causes unexpected issues, please let me
know - I think for 95% of stuff it should continue to "just work", but
lots of corner-case bugs will have gone away.

Thanks, Neil

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,

The 0.14 release on Windows had an unexpected change that "//*" <.> exe produced "//*\\.exe" and not "//*.exe". You could argue that is a bug in the FilePath library, but to work around it I now always export the extension methods from Posix file paths. That change is present in 0.14.1. 

Thanks, Neil