Re: [4diac-dev] Proposal: Remove IEC 61499 System Importer

[Alois Zoitl <alois.zoitl@xxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

It is possible but i see the following issues with it:
  - first of all it has quite some bugs (I think at least 3 are reported) that for quite some time nobody wanted to fix, for me this also means nobody needs or
uses it
  - keeping it makes other code parts in 4diac IDE harder but this could be solved
  - and finally for me the most important point: this importer confuses users. many use it to import 4diac IDE projects which most always leads to broken 4diac
IDE projects. Avoiding to make that mistake i would find important.

However while I'm writing here I got the idea that with the new project layout also the system importer needs (can) change. It could simply copy the system file
into an existing project. With that I think all existing bugs on the importer are obsolete and we would also not break any 4diac IDE projects.

Would this be a way? Although I must say I still prefere to delete it. It frees resources for more important stuff.

Cheers,
Alois


On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 19:30 +0100, Thomas I. Strasser wrote:
> Hi Alois,
>
> Thanks for your update. Even if it's possible to just copy the sys file into
> the workspace I would also keep the system importer (if possible) simply for
> usability.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:33 PM Alois Zoitl <alois.zoitl@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With the planned new Project layout (see Bug #558338 [1]) adding an existing IEC 61499 system file would be simply copying it into a 4diac IDE project.
> > Therefore it will make little sense to keep the IEC 61499 system importer. Especially as it has several issues and it would make other parts of the system file
> > handling code easier.
> >
> > How do you see this?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alois
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=558338
> >
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