Re: [4diac-dev] GSoC milestone

[Jörg Walter <joerg.walter@xxxxxxxx>]

On 29.07.20 21:13, Sándor Bácsi wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Here is a new update on my GSoC project. We have collected a set of
> constraints, which can be found here
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JFpQhYCTBrei3QrgTYtS0RLJ0daLuESjP0bE87VRZas/edit?usp=sharing>.
> Feedback and support are warmly welcome on the list of constraints, feel
> free to add your comments to the constraints. I have finished the
> implementation of constraints on the ECC level
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=564852> and there are
> several constraints on the Application level
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=565065> as well.
> Currently, there is a simple dialog window for displaying the results of
> the validation. The next step is to improve the UI, by displaying the
> Error, Warning and Info elements in the Problems View. Initial prototype:

Wow, this looks great! I'm happy that this works out.

I have one suggestion to make, in order to skip the problems that many
C++ compilers had until recently: There will always be users that read
these error messages for the first time (e.g. GSOC students using the
tool for the first time ^^). They won't necessarily understand what that
violated constraint means.

Can you add an annotation which allows constraint authors to add a
longer explanation, i.e. don't just output "don't do this", but also
"this is a typical example of how it's done right". And of course, make
this easily discoverable, maybe just append it to the error message.

Thanks for the great work.

Regards,
-- 
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