Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August 27, 2003

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I *know* today isn't the 6'th.

McQ.

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Status 
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Debug: 
- launching uses background job (we have one more fix ready for this for
M3) 
- support for breakpoints in external source 
- improved breakpoint location verification (using JDOM)
- persistence of watch expressions 

Ant: 
- Ant 1.5.4 
- support for console coloring and hyperlinks in output from seperate VM

JDT/UI: 
- bug fixing 
- worked on new search prototype: 
  - avoid use of IMarker 
  - support for search participants 
- new quick assists: 
  - join variable declaration 
  - split variable declaration 
  - create new field from parameter 
- worked on NLS wizard enhancements: 
  - support for key renaming 

Platform/JDT Text: 
- improved Smart Home for comments: it now stops at the beginning of real
text 
- word navigation, selection and deletion enhanced for Java names (also
know 
  as camel-case) 
- added Add/Remove Block Comment commands 
- introduced ExtendedTextEditor which enhances the AbstractTextEditor with
  rulers, print margins, line highlighting and more
- improved overview ruler: 
  - added tool tip text to overview ruler header
  - clicking on same overview ruler item jumps to next annotation
  - click on overview ruler item respects layer
- improved QuickDiff feature: 
  - accessibility work 
  - using hand cursor 
- continued work on Javadoc formatting 
- bug fixing 
- testing 

Rel Eng: 
- TO DO *POST* 3.0 M3: 
  - move to 3.0 M3 plugins for running builds
  - move to 1.4 level vm's for running and testing the builds
    - IBM 1.4.1 for running build 
    - IBM 1.4.1 for testing on Linux GTK
    - Sun 1.4.2 for testing on Windows XP
- binaries for the qnx photon configuration will not be built until
  a J9 1.4 vm becomes available.