| [sapphire-dev] Sapphire and Eclipse 4.2 |
As some of you may already know, Eclipse Juno release (Summer of 2012) will use Eclipse 4.2 as the primary platform (as opposed to Eclipse 3.8, which will also be available). Being the primary platform means that all the packages will be based on Eclipse 4.2 and the public repository will likely only contain Eclipse 4.2 bundles. Eclipse 3.8 will still be available, but in much more diminished role. To align with this plan, we need to make sure that Sapphire is fully compatible with Eclipse 4.2. We will start that work in the 0.4 release. I have just committed the initial set of changes to make the build use Eclipse 4.2 as the dev/target platform. If you sync and re-build, you should see Eclipse 4.2 come up when you launch your dev eclipse. I ran into one minor issue during the build (use of internal platform API that no longer exists) that I was able to work around. I poked around a bit at runtime. Form UI seems to be working ok, but the diagram editor blows up on launch. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=356127 Please pay attention for any other glitches as you use Sapphire 0.4 on top of Eclipse 4.2. File bugs as appropriate. Note that supported Eclipse platforms for Sapphire 0.4 release are 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 4.2. We will _not_ be using any Eclipse 4.2 specific facilities. Let me know if there are any questions. - Konstantin PS: Sapphire 0.3.1 will not support Eclipse 4.2 or event 3.8 for that matter. Let me know if that is a hardship for you as an adopter and we will try to work with you. |