[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August 13, 2003

["Mike Wilson" <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Status
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JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- reduced memory consumption of type
constraints (affects 
  ExtractInterfaceRefactroing and
UseSupertype)
- started with new code formatter integration
- Java family: 
  - continued work on text edit
infrastructure:
    - recoded self encapsulate
field and move static members
      to use AST rewrite.
    - worked on API clean-up

Search:
- support to use enclosing project as
search scope.

Rel Eng:
- documenting new build scripts for
Eclipse.
  - Draft of instructions on how
to run a build available here:
    http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder/readme.html?rev=1.20
  - till in proceess of testing
and fine tuning these instructions.
- porting new PDE Build mechanism to
build non Eclipse components, ie GEF, WSWB
- fixing NL fragment generation tool


Platform/JDT Text:
- bug fixing
- generalized "Go to Error"
to user customizable "Go to Annotation" in Java Editor:
  - prepared to be moved to the
platform
- reimplemented Java editor handling
of annotations based on the platform mechanisms
- implemented and released multi-partitioning
documents
- continued work on Javadoc formatting
- continued work on share file buffers:
  - will be part of the next integration
build

Team/CVS: 
- RCP 
  - involved the core team to help
with the User Settings plan item since all the
    API will live in the runtime
and resources plugins.
  - Michael and DJ will be working
together on this plan item.
- Concurrency: 
  - using new granular resource
locking to fix an old lock ordering issue in the CVS plugin
  - continued work on making the
CVS client classes thread safe. This includes not allowing
    logins to be interrupted
and serializing logins to the same repo.
- User Experience
  - started writting our proposed
solution to the Support Logical Resources plan item.

PDE:
- bug fixing

Help:
- discussions around some enhancements

Update/Install: 
- work on plan item 37702: 
  - provided support for local
admins to mirror remote update sites so that local users
    update their product within
their own internal network.


SWT:
- interop on Motif no longer GP's with
JDK 1.5
- lots of problems in BIDI on GTK
- HTML widget work proceeding

Debug:
- released initial implementation of
generic watch items
- work proceeding with breakpoints in
external source

Ant:
- support for disabling an external
tool builder
- hyperlinks in Ant output from external/seperate
VM