Re: [platform-ant-dev] Evolving Ant/External Tools/Debug Platform

["Darin Swanson" <darins@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can take some of the credit/blame as well.

No problem if you want to fix it all up though ;-)

Darins

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> Sounds great.
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> Just so I know who to harass if I have any questions, did you (DarinW) do
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> implementation of all this?
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> - Jared
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> On Friday 08 November 2002 02:54 pm, Darin Wright wrote:
> > Much new work has appeared in HEAD this week relating to the re-use of
> the
> > launch infrastructure in external tools.
> >
> > A new concept has been added to the debug UI to identify groups of
> related
> > launch configurations. Each group supports a launch history (for
example,
> > the run and debug histories), and is viewed in the launch configuration
> > dialog together. A group identifies the launch configurations that belon
g
> > to it via the combination of launch configuration "category" and "launch
> > mode". Thus, the debug UI itself defines two launch groups - run and
> > debug.
> >
> > (To see the new work in external tools, you must turn on the "work in
> > progress" preference to "use launch configurations" from the "External
> > Tools -> Work in pogress" preference page).
> >
> > External tools has defined two new types of launch configurations -
> > "programs" and "ant scripts". Each of these config types has a category
> of
> > "externalTools". As well, external tools has defined a launch group for
> > its configurations. The external tools menu now looks/behaves similar to
> > the debug/run menus - i.e. there is a drop down history, and an action
to
> > open the launch config dialog, called "External Tools...". Tabs have
been
> > created (based on Simon's work), that allow programs and ant scripts to
> be
> > configured.
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> > When using the new "launch config" support, you will see that external
> > tools now use the debug console, and register processes with the
> debugger.
> > This provides a launch/console history. Currently, the debug console
does
> > not support structured output -  however, color coding has been
> > maintained. Simple "hyper links" have also been provided in the console
> > that link ant output back to their associated tasks in their XML files.
> >
> > Implementation of "external tool builders" that use launch configs is
not
> > complete. Users should be aware that the UI currently allows a mixed
mode
> > of development. That is, you can use the old and new external tools
> > support side by side (since the external tools view is still present,
and
> > project builders are still configured with the old support). This is a
> > temporary problem - when the new support is fully functional, the old
> > support will be removed.
> >
> > Darin
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