Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Oct 29, 2003

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=41014
Basically, the idea is to perform a
search-and-replace for renamed IDs, but at runtime, so that 2.1 workspaces
and plug-ins might continue to function.

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Nick,

Are you saying that both PDE and Platform UI team are working on migration
tool for transforming extension points and prerequisites from 2.1 to 3.0?

Regards,

Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
Manager, Eclipse Platform Components
D2/MY7/8200/MKM
IBM Canada Ltd.
Tel. 905 413-2745  T/L 969-2745
Fax. 905 413-4854



                    
                     
                     
          
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Status for Platform UI:

- removed dependencies on Xerces
- bug fixing

- RCP:
  - preparing for move over to HEAD after next week's integration
build
  - reducing number of breaking API changes
  - automatic compatibility transform to fix up plug-in prerequisites
and
extension point ids for 2.1 plug-ins running on a post-RCP 3.0

- Scalability:
  - Javadoc for activities API

- Usability:
  - progress on editor management:
    - adding type-ahead filtering to editors drop-down
    - improvements to look

Nick





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-------------------
 Discussion Topics
-------------------

Debug:
- The debug team is investigating use of "roles/activities" to
handle
scalability
  issues in the debug platform (view/action visibility). The support
looks
promising.
  One issue/question we have encountered is how to filter multiple
functions provided
  by one plug-in. For example, the "Applet" support (launch
config, launch
shortcuts,
  etc), is provided as part of the Java debugger. Many developers
would
like to filter
  this from the UI. However, since the applet function is provided
by the
Java debug
  plug-in, the contributions associated with the support share the
same
prefix as the
  rest of the Java debug support. What is the recommended way to filter
such things?
  Should we define a different prefix for the applet contributions?
Should
there be
  a way to subdivide plug-ins? For example, the "Java debugging
role" is
identified
  by the "org.eclipse.jdt.debug" prefix, but excludes the
  "org.eclipse.jdt.debug.applet" prefix.

Core:
- build submissions and rebuilds: recommend that if something happens so
the tests
  aren't run (failed submission, etc) then we do an automatic rebuild.
If
the tests
  fail then a rebuild in 24hrs will suffice. This will hopefully reduce
the number
  of rebuilds later in the week.

----------
 Outreach
----------

- Kai gave a half day tutorial on Sunday at OOPLSA:
  - "Eclipse Extensions?Making the Connections"
  - http://oopsla.org/oopsla2003/files/tut-6.html

- Equinox was presented last Friday at the OSGi World Congress in Germany.

  - Generated interest especially the scaling requirements (e.g.,
5000
bundles)

--------
 Status
--------

Debug:
- new "string substitution" plug-in is in the build -
org.eclipse.core.variables
  - provides facilities for defining variables of the form "${var_name}",
    and replacing variable references in arbitrary strings with
associated

    values
  - variables may have static values (i.e. setter/getter), or have
dynamic
values
    resolved by a delegate
- automatic parititioning of arrays now supported in the debug platform.
A
new
  extension of IValue was added to the debug model - IIndexedValue
  - the variables view will automatically partition indexed values
into
subranges
    in the variables and expresssions views. Debug model implementors
do
not need
    to implement the new interface, but will get new function
if they do.
- new "Organize Favorities" dialog
  - the launch history preference page has been replaced with an
"organize"
    favorites dialog available on the the run/debug drop-down
menus
  - as well, an action has been added to the context menu of the debug
view to
    "add a launch to the favorites".
- filter added to variables/_expression_ views to "Show Null Array Entries"
  - by default, null array entries are displayed, but can be filtered
by
toggling
    this new option on the view drop-down menu.
- bug fixing

Ant:
- improved UI for manipulating Ant's runtime classpath (preference page
Ant -> Runtime)
  - rather than having two lists - one for defining the jars associated
with an Ant
    installation, and one for a global set of extra jars - one
list is
displayed
    with groups/containers of jars.
- bug fixing

JDTCore:
- search for local variables is now supported
- search finds references in javadoc
- grammar for 1.5 is available
- bug fixing (resolved outstanding issue for PDE in Equinox)

Platform/JDT Text:
- continued working on Javadoc spell checking:
  - preferences UI
  - content Assist in comments
  - optimization of double metaphone algorithm / edit distance
- improved comment formatter:
  - moved everything to edit based formatting strategies
  - new simplified content formatter
- first cut of background highlight annotation painter
- implemented a radial context menu prototype for OOPSLA
- implemented occurrences marker for the Java editor
- visibility of vertical ruler annotations can be configured via editor's
Annotation
  preference page
- bug fixing

Core:
- Preferences:
  - continued talks about the way things should look
  - hope to have a flushed out doc later this week
  - API MUST be defined by M5 to make this happen for 3.0
- Concurrency:
  - working on better deadlock handling.
    - currently deadlock among ILock instances is detected and
broken, but
there is
      no error reporting when it happens.
    - new story will be able to log a detailed error report and
then break
deadlock,
      and will treat scheduling rules as locks.
  - no longer blocking when markers are manipulated on resources locked
by
background
    operations (this is good because marker manipulation is usually
done
in UI thread).
  - new IWorkspace.run method that takes a scheduling rule (acts like
a
fine grained
    resource lock), and a style bit to specify if periodic notifications
are desired.
  - education material needed for UI committers to move to this API:
finer
grained
    locking means less chance of colliding with background activity.
- RCP:
  - support on-demand....fixing bugs for Erich's demo @Oopsla :-)

JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- added exception support to change method signature
- continued work with JDT/Core on AST rewriting API
- worked on XML _expression_ evaluation proposal

Search:
- continued work on improved search/replace functionality

SWT:
- numlock and arrowpad keys implemented (SWT.KEYPAD_0, etc)
- more exploring new look and feel in CTabFolder
- adding setText API to Browser
- bug fixing and more 2.1.2 support

Equinox:
- new fragment model (same as Eclipse) in place now
- reviewing the classloader structure and improving speed/scalability
- working on OSGi RFCs for the various OSGi spec updates

Rel Eng:
- remove dependencies on Xerces plug-in in internal tools and
org.eclipse.test
- fix NL fragment, feature generators


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