Hi!
We are currently targeting Eclipse 3.6 and will soon go for 3.7. I might
even consider jumping to 3.8, but some users don't have plain Eclipse
installations, but things like Windriver Workbench and it's difficult to
know when they upgrade.
Regarding 4.x, that will need a fair amount of work and currently we think
that it is more important to improve the core functionality and stability.
Since 4.x can run 3.x plugins, I don't feel it's a big problem. I think we
can look at it after the summer.
regards,
Vlad
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Christopher Svanefalk <
christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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