> -----Original Message----- > From: Russel Winder [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 11:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: GGTS/ Eclipse support for the groovy ecosystem > > On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 17:38 +0200, Cédric Champeau wrote: > […] > > As for maintaining Groovy Eclipse (not GGTS), we should really > try > > to find > > a new team capable of handling this. It is basically a set of > patches > > applied on the Groovy compiler (that cannot be integrated into > the > > normal > > compiler for a lot of different reasons), and it needs a good > > knowledge of > > Eclipse. Once we find those people (that's a call!), I know that > the > > current Groovy Eclipse maintainers at Pivotal are willing to help > to > > transfer knowledge. > […] > > I too am not really an Eclipse user, but there is a collection of > people using it as their only IDE. Many of them are getting into > Gradle (I am doing some Gradle workshops shortly to such people). > > The Eclipse Gradle plugin is currently a Pivotal thing, I hope that > Gradleware will take over management of this.
I believe that this is exactly what is happening. I was told this work is scheduled for a first release along with Eclipse Mars, in June of this year. > Eclipse with Gradle can be used without the Groovy plugin, but it > seems very clunky to do this, it all works better if both the > Gradle > and Groovy plugins are in place. > > As Jon Kerridge pointed out in another thread, and I can attest to > personally, the snapshot Groovy plugin supports Groovy 2.4 and > seems > to work well. It needs to be released and framework put in place to > manage the ongoing evolution alongside Groovy. > > I wonder if the Groovy (and Gradle?) plugin perhaps needs to become > an > Eclipse project in an analogous way that Groovy became an Apache > one. > > -- > Russel. > =================================================================== > ========== > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: > [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
