[news.eclipse.technology.imp] Re: New release of IMP available on eclips

[<jin.phd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great work! As my primary test, the new release works well under the Eclipse 
3.5M5. The stability of this release has been much improved in my feeling. 
hope imp will end incubation soon.

"Robert M. Fuhrer" <rfuhrer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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> Hi All,
>
> I've just posted a new release of IMP on our eclipse.org update
> site (at long last!). The update site location is:
>
>   http://download.eclipse.org/technology/imp/updates
>
> We've done quite a bit of debugging over the last several months,
> and finally got our IP approvals for the various dependencies on
> external tools (like Polyglot and LPG).
>
> The preferences specification language has been enhanced
> considerably (with support for new field types, and several
> elements are now optional, with sensible defaults).
>
> There is now a "presentation specification language" (more or
> less bleeding-edge, which provides fairly concise and declarative
> syntax for specifying token coloring, outlining, folding, and
> label provider services. It's been a while since I worked on this,
> but at last report it was generating sensible-looking working code.
> Your mileage may vary.
>
> We've tested this on Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4. We've not had time as
> of yet to try it out on 3.5Mx, so any intrepid souls out there
> that would like to try and post their experiences would be very
> helpful. We've been developing on MacOS, Windows, and Linux, so
> hopefully you'll find things working fairly well on these
> platforms.
>
> The update site houses not only IMP, but all of the other
> features on which IMP depends (which previously you needed to
> go to other update sites to retrieve):
>
>  - LPG
>  - Polyglot
>  - SDF + Box
>
> Also, we've done a bit of reorganization of the features, so that
> now the analysis-related code (the "Program DataBase", or PDB,
> and friends) have been relocated to separate features.
>
> Finally, as a quick heads-up, there are some minor breaking API
> changes to PluginBase (derived classes need to define getLanguageID())
> and a couple of other classes.
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
>   -- Bob
>
> --------------------------------
> Robert M. Fuhrer
> Research Staff Member
> Programming Technologies Dept.
> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
>
> IDE Meta-tooling Platform Project Lead (http://www.eclipse.org/imp)
> X10: Productive High-Performance Parallel Programming (http://x10.sf.net)