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Can I help out with DLTK Ruby? [message #948594] Thu, 18 October 2012 07:05 Go to next message
Thomas Hallgren is currently offline Thomas HallgrenFriend
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Hi,

I'm in need of good Ruby support in Eclipse. I've looked at the DLTK and
it seems great in many respects. But is it actively being developed? I
found to my surprise that it doesn't support the hash syntax introduced
in Ruby 1.9 yet:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=386350

and that seems fairly fundamental. I'm willing to help out and provide a
patch unless someone else is working on fixing this already.

While looking at the DLTK code I noticed that it has not yet been
transitioned into Java 1.5. No typed collections and no generics. I'm
the guy who did that transition on the p2 code-base so perhaps I could
help out with DLTK too? All if there's an interest of course.

In short, what's the state of DLTK Ruby and in what ways can I help?

Kind Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
Re: Can I help out with DLTK Ruby? [message #958517 is a reply to message #948594] Fri, 26 October 2012 02:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Alex Panchenko is currently offline Alex PanchenkoFriend
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Hi Thomas,

Thanks for offering the help!

Unfortunately DLTK-Ruby is not actively developed at the moment.

Generics: Parts are updated (slowly :-)) when there is a need for other
changes in the same part. Just not to introduce (more) bugs during bulk
update.

Ruby 1.9: DLTK uses parser from some old JRuby, converting JRuby AST to
DLTK-specific one. Now they have kind of IDE-oriented parser
https://github.com/jruby/jruby-parser , so it should be updated and to
have it enabled for usage we should file a CQ.

Definitely, Ruby needs somebody to work on it.

Regards,
Alex

On 10/18/2012 02:05 PM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in need of good Ruby support in Eclipse. I've looked at the DLTK and
> it seems great in many respects. But is it actively being developed? I
> found to my surprise that it doesn't support the hash syntax introduced
> in Ruby 1.9 yet:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=386350
>
> and that seems fairly fundamental. I'm willing to help out and provide a
> patch unless someone else is working on fixing this already.
>
> While looking at the DLTK code I noticed that it has not yet been
> transitioned into Java 1.5. No typed collections and no generics. I'm
> the guy who did that transition on the p2 code-base so perhaps I could
> help out with DLTK too? All if there's an interest of course.
>
> In short, what's the state of DLTK Ruby and in what ways can I help?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
Re: Can I help out with DLTK Ruby? [message #959631 is a reply to message #958517] Fri, 26 October 2012 21:45 Go to previous message
Thomas Hallgren is currently offline Thomas HallgrenFriend
Messages: 3240
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
On 2012-10-26 04:58, Alex Panchenko wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thanks for offering the help!
>
> Unfortunately DLTK-Ruby is not actively developed at the moment.
>
> Generics: Parts are updated (slowly :-)) when there is a need for other
> changes in the same part. Just not to introduce (more) bugs during bulk
> update.
>
> Ruby 1.9: DLTK uses parser from some old JRuby, converting JRuby AST to
> DLTK-specific one. Now they have kind of IDE-oriented parser
> https://github.com/jruby/jruby-parser , so it should be updated and to
> have it enabled for usage we should file a CQ.
>
Yes, I figured that would be the case and in fact, I've done some work
on switching to that parser already :-)

Could you please enter the CQ and CC me on it? I don't think I'm
entitled to do that on behalf of DLTK.

- thomas
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