Re: [m2m-dev] [QVT(Declarative)] IMP-based editors and builders

[Quentin Glineur <quentin.glineur@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

Everything seems perfect in what you described there. Are you still on 
using IMP for the editors ?

Regards,

Quentin


Ed Willink a écrit :
> Hi Quentin, Radek et al
>
> I now have revised all the UMLX editors to use IMP to provide the editing
> functionality subject to configuration by an Editor definition model that
> can in due course be changed on the fly by user preferences. The text editing
> is replaced, the LPG-based CST, AST parsing is re-used and a common editing
> framework supports each of the following by very thin customisations.
> 	- KM3 was handy to practice on
> 	- QVTc and QVTr are what we really want
> 	- OCL comes for free since QVTc and QVTr extend its folding/outlines/...
>
> I'm now sorting out the builder.
>
> The UMLX editors had the following behaviour
> 	Most recently loaded/saved input file in e.g. wherever/foo.qvtc
> 	Cached input file in e.g. .tmpdir/foo$qvtc
> 	Built output in e.g wherever/foo.qvtcore or wherever/foo.eqvtcore
>
> The .tmpdir copy was necessary because I wasn't clever enough to figure
> out how to compile an in-memory document. IMP shows me how easy this is,
> so the .tmpdir copy will vanish.
>
> Dropping 'binary' files in the 'source' folder is convenient during
> development but not really very well-behaved.
>
> IMP would like to put the 'binary' files in a /bin/ folder. This
> seems much cleaner and more JDT-compatible.
>
> I think we should aspire to a JDT-like Property Pages in which source
> and binary folders are configured and libraries and paths and ...
>
> Quentin: Does this make sense with regard to whatever you're doing with
> execution?
>
> Users would no doubt find it easier if QVTo too had equally JDT-like
> configuration.
>
> Radek: Is there an opportunity for sharing development here? Have you
> already done this?
>
>     Regards
>
>         Ed Willink 
>
>
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