| [imp-dev] Heads up: upcoming refactoring to remove imp.runtime dependencies on JDT |
| Hi All, Just a quick heads-up, as the subject sez: Soon-ish we'll be refactoring and rewriting the IMP runtime a bit to make it more independent of the JDT, and to move the remaining JDT-dependent code into a separate plugin. The reason is these dependencies fall into 2 categories: 1) Code that really needn't depend on the JDT in particular, but for convenience was referencing Eclipse platform-related utility code that could live in the IMP runtime. This code will be rewritten. 2) Code that really does need to depend on the JDT, because it's extending functionality intended for languages that are hosted/run on a Java VM. This code will be moved to a separate plugin, something like org.eclipse.imp.runtime.javaHosted. This probably won't happen for a few weeks, but when it does, the resulting packaging change could affect whatever you're building on top of IMP. -- Cheers, -- Bob -------------------------------- Robert M. Fuhrer Research Staff Member Programming Technologies Dept. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center IMP Team Lead (http://www.eclipse.org/imp) X10: Productivity for High-Performance Parallel Programming (http://x10-lang.org) |