Hello everyone!
Quick question on the state of Erlide - have you guys already migrated, or
are you planning to migrate to Eclipse 4.2 (i.e. RCP 2.0) in terms of
plugin framework?
Peace!
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Vlad Dumitrescu <vladd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This list has been quiet for too long, I thought it would be nice to
> write a report on what has been going on and what we are doing at the
> moment.
>
> Since quite a long time ago, we started being hampered in our progress
> by (basically) the fact that the code base has grown organically into
> a mess. This makes it hard to change without creating follow-up
> problems and it makes it hard/slow to test. So for some year ago I
> sketched a plan for how to address this.
>
> One of the alternatives and the one we drove the last half of last
> year, is to start using Xtext, an Eclipse framework for developing
> language support (xtext.org). It was all nice and dandy, until we
> discovered that there were performance problems for large projects
> (which our main user base has). These problems we could not solve
> right away and we decided to wait and see how Xtext evolves.
>
> We returned to the "old" codebase and started to implement the changes
> needed to make it easier to understand, less fragile and more
> testable. This is an ongoing process and it will be quite dramatic. If
> anyone is keeping track of the code, the most visible thing happening
> is that there are several new plugins. Code is getting moved from one
> plugin to another and we might even split up the wrangler, cover and
> trace features into their own repositories. This will mess up the git
> history a bit, but it is necessary.
>
> The vision is that when we are ready, we will have all the core
> functionality nicely packaged and independent of Eclipse, hopefully
> implemented completely in Erlang. There's a long way there, though.
>
> Some highlights of the current state of affairs:
> * we have finally fixed some problems that have haunted us for a long
> time, where the Erlang backend would crash. From version 0.19 you
> should see a much stabler application
> * we are soon going to set Eclipse 3.7 as the minimum supported base
> * we have support for R16
> * in the nearest timeframe there won't be many new features, but we
> focus on fixing bugs and improving stability and testability of the
> code base
>
> I will try to use the list more often from now on, instead of doing
> direct communication.
>
> best regards,
> Vlad
>
>
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