[news.eclipse.technology.imp] Re: Is SVN coherent (for Eclipse 3.5)

["Robert M. Fuhrer" <rfuhrer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Willink wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to check out IMP from SVN under Eclipse 3.5RC5 and getting a 
> variety
> of errors, no doubt some of them of my own making, but (amongst many 
> others):
>
> LEGCompiler complains that functionDeclaration cannot be found. Seems 
> reasonable since only
> IFunctionDeclaration , functionDeclaration0 and functionDeclaration1 are 
> available.

I'll have to look at this, but I suspect that some errors in the LEG 
project and/or templates may have crept in in recent months (just before 
or after the EclipseCon tutorial). These shouldn't be show-stoppers, but
I can see where they'd be annoying and/or confusing.

> IMPWizardPage complains that TypeSelectionDialog2 from a jdt internal 
> package does
> not exist.

I did some work recently to address two issues (I reported on this work
in a message to the imp-dev mailing list last month):

 1) Reduce IMP's dependencies on internal (non-API) classes, like the
    abovementioned TypeSelectionDialog2.

 2) Remove the IMP runtime feature's dependence on the JDT.

The 1st issue has been partially addressed.

The 2nd issue has been addressed by:
 - rewriting the offending classes to use API where possible
 - copying a few bits of utility code from the JDT, and
 - moving the remaining classes to a couple of new plugins, namely,
   org.eclipse.imp.java.hosted and org.eclipse.imp.ui.explorer.

The changes have been checked into SVN HEAD, but have not been formally
released yet.

> The first looks like an SVN incoherency, the latter like an Eclipse 3.5 
> incompatibility.

--
Cheers,
  -- Bob

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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)
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