On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Adrian Sampaleanu <
nmanole@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recently tried to use the new JDT weaving version of AJDT and wasn't
> successful. The assumption that the AJDT plugins are installed under the
> Eclipse directory is not right in my case as I install additional Eclipse
> features externally, by placing a .link file in the dropins directory for
> each major feature group I add. I tried following the steps in the wiki for
> this kind of use case, but wasn't successful in getting Equinox Aspects to
> run. I supposed catering to "non-standard" installations is not a priority,
> but I suspect that it's exactly these people (who are first adopters and are
> very meticulous about how/where plugins are installed) that would have
> useful input of the kind you're asking for.
>
> It's too bad Eclipse's new and improved update mechanism was only "half"
> implemented - now I need to use both the old one and new one in order to
> achieve a cleaner separation between features and not pollute my Eclipse
> installation with older irrelevant versions of plugins that I update
> regularly.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Andy Clement <
andrew.clement@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just wanted to share some goals for 1.6.4 with everyone on the dev
>> list and maybe get some feedback. The AspectJ codebase in the best
>> shape ever and for once, release on release, the number of bugs is
>> decreasing drastically. With the recent improvements in AJDT we are
>> actually reaching a point where it is not so painful to convert a
>> project from Java > AJ nature. So it makes me wary of tackling any of
>> the larger items for 1.6.4 that may lead to destabilization, such as
>> the new 'intertype {}' syntax. Instead I feel we should tackle all
>> the little glitches here and there that detract from the development
>> experience and really get things working smoothly. Effectively 1.6.4
>> being more a bug fix and further polish release - rather than anything
>> too radical. I'll take comments on what people thing about this?
>>
>> To follow up on this, I might post on the users list for people to let
>> me know about any glitches they see, anything at all. All those
>> little things where they just say "Oh, AJDT just does that, I just
>> press the emergency 'clean all' button" - these are problems that
>> traditionally people probably haven't been reporting but have just
>> been tolerating.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Andy.
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