[news.eclipse.technology.imp] Re: LPG v2.0.17 and Orbit

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

Hi Adolfo,

[Apologies for not having responded earlier; it's been a particularly
intense work period for me the last couple of weeks.]

Although v2.0.17 is the latest LPG version at the moment, v2.0.18 is due 
out fairly soon (so says Philippe Charles, the primary author), and has 
some potentially very useful improvements in the area of error recovery.

As a result, I've been delaying the initiation of another CQ for LPG in 
hopes of avoiding doing two in rapid succession.

I've also been intending to get LPG into Orbit, since as you say it's 
useful to a wider audience than just IMP users.

Also, although v2.0.17 is mostly a bug-fix release over 2.0.16, it 
includes one fairly significant fix to the runtime (as I recall, it 
resolves a bug causing the parser driver to hang on certain erroneous 
inputs). As a result, I believe 2.0.17+ is a better candidate for Orbit 
than 2.0.16.

As of his latest communication, Philippe believes 2.0.18 will be 
released within the next few weeks. If that's too long a delay given 
your project's constraints, let me know, and I'll start a 2.0.17 CQ, and 
perhaps you can initiate the Orbit process once that's in place.

Adolfo Sánchez-Barbudo Herrera wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> I'm one of the members of Eclipse's MDT-OCL project and we are planning 
> to migrate the current LPG v1.1-based grammars and parsing 
> infrastructure to the new LPG v2.0.17 one. To achieve this goal we will 
> need to make LPG pass IP process, integrate the project into Orbit, in 
> the same way it was done some years ago with LPG v1.1.
>
> Since IMP is the natural project which should also solve this kind of 
> issues, I'm just wondering if you have done any kind of process to make 
> LPG v2.0.17 take part into Eclipse's Orbit.
>
> Cheers,
> Adolfo.


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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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