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

[<jin.phd@xxxxxxxxx>]

today I check the trunk source to see the behavior, two trivial errors 
found, I add a bug to bugizlla as a note[].

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267771

"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)