RE: [ajdt-dev] AJDT available for Eclipse 3.4

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Not to mention that Andy is a powerhouse :)

Wes makes some great points below, including the fact that the current
number of people maintaining the AspectJ compiler is proportional to those
maintaining javac.

But yes, AJDT has been short-handed lately, which has put an exceptionally
high load on Andy who has very impressively taken the first step in
delivering support for Eclipse 3.4 while continuing to evolve the compiler.
I'll let Andy follow up about efforts currently underway to get more
resources onto the project, but also note that AJDT is a free tool that's
open to contributions.

Mik

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ajdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ajdt-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wes Isberg
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:43 AM
> To: ajdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ajdt-dev] AJDT available for Eclipse 3.4
> 
> just my opinions here...
> 
> If/since you are just starting, you should use the latest *production*
> release, which is AJDT 1.5.1 for 3.3, or at least the 1.5.2 release for
> 3.3.
> It's not fair to complain that the bleeding edge is bloody :)
> 
> As for the project, it's a *very* good thing that the language
> basically
> stabilized after 5 years and since then in the last 3 years changes
> have been
> mainly to track changes in Java 5 and Java 6 and in the underlying
> Eclipse
> platform, plus some effort to get scalable performance (sorry if you
> happen
> to be stuck on 3.2).  If you're looking for a language you can rely on,
> look
> for stability, not churn.
> 
> As for people, consider that Sun probably only has 1-2 people working
> on the
> javac compiler which has more usage and more change recently.  In the
> mature
> phases of a project, you really want just a few people who deeply
> understand
> it to maintain it, not tons of folks adding features.
> 
> Wes
> 
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:47:21 +0100
>  gabriele.garuglieri@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi all, i have a couple of questions about ajdt for eclipse 3.4.
> > I've never tried before ajdt, but i'd like to investigate its usage
> for
> > our projects.
> > I installed the version for 3.4 and tried to start using the
> examples, but
> > i'm stuck at the very beginning.
> > Aj files editor refuses to open, aspect keyword in java files is not
> > recognized, quick fix not working at all (bunch of exceptions) or
> when it
> > "works" it swallows all the imports, error logs fills with tons of
> > exceptions and so on.
> >
> > Can someone give me a rough idea of what is expected to work or don't
> work
> > in this release?
> >
> > The second point is that while back in 2006/7 there was a lot of
> attention
> > on this project, now it looks that man power is decreased to just one
> > committer and i've got the impression that the project is starving to
> > death.
> > Now, since time is a precious resource and i don't want to bet on a
> dead
> > horse, can someone shed some light on the future of this project?
> >
> > Thanks, Gabriele
> 
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