[equinox-dev] Plans to replace the Console with GoGo for Indigo

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There have been various discussions about replacing our framework console with something a bit more functional and flexible like apache gogo [1]. At this point in the Indigo release we do not plan to remove our own console for the Indigo release. Instead we will do what ever is required to enable the use of gogo on top of Equinox. We would like to use the incubator to allow this effort to mature and then re-evaluate the complete removal of our built-in framework console in a later release. Lazar Kirchev from SAP has been doing various experiments and investigations in this area. My hope is that Lazar will soon be in a position to contribute this work to the equinox incubator so that others can try it out on top of Indigo.

Tom

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=317827