On 10/01/2013, at 2:14 PM, Guillaume Laforge wrote: > Hi Luke, > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Luke Daley <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > • @DelegatesTo annotation: to help IDEs and the static type checker > > and compiler to know that method calls in a method parameter closure are > > delegated to another parameter of the method -- nice for DSLs like in > > Gradle build files > > Is there any possibility of getting this backported to the 1.x line? > > We can't upgrade to Groovy 2 until Gradle 2 because of the breaking binary > incompatibilities, and other backwards incompatible changes. > > We could partially backport it, in the sense that we would "just" add the > annotation to the 1.8 line, but we wouldn't add the static type checking and > compilation support since that was only available starting from 2.0. > > But the annotation is really just an annotation in the end, hence good for > documentation purpose and for IDE support (pending Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA > support that hint)
Indeed, and it would also improve the Javadoc. > > [...] > > > -- > Guillaume Laforge > Groovy Project Manager > SpringSource, a division of VMware > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > Social: @glaforge / Google+ -- Luke Daley Principal Engineer, Gradleware http://gradleware.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
