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Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1781435]

Wed, 07 February 2018 05:20

Eclipse User

Hi,

I want to outline which methods are generated in my generated code. I read there is a tool called Mint that colors the methods in the Outline view accordingly, but cant find it or enable it in recent version of EMF(tools). Any ideas?

Kind regards,
Ewoud

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1781513 is a reply to message #1781435]

Thu, 08 February 2018 00:24

Eclipse User

Sorry, that project was archived long ago.

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1781559 is a reply to message #1781513]

Thu, 08 February 2018 09:36

Eclipse User

Ah, thanks. That explains why I couldn't find it.
Is there an alternative, as the filter outline function cannot filter on javadoc annotations (such as @generated) as far as I know?

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1781591 is a reply to message #1781559]

Fri, 09 February 2018 00:25

Eclipse User

Sorry, I don't know of anything that could be done in this regard without installing some type of extension... I thought there was some way to at least showing markers in the ruler, but I couldn't find anything like that in the preferences.

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1781661 is a reply to message #1781591]

Sun, 11 February 2018 05:54

Eclipse User

Hi

The termination Bugzilla for MINT lists its archive: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=394852

My initial recollection of MINT was that it appeared on my machine by accident and my JDT EMF experience was unexpectedly different; I'm not fond of unexpected change.

However I came to quite like the coloring that distinguished autogenerated functionality and so when MINT vanished I was disappointed.

Unfortunately MINT was a one project and one man projects are often short lived. I just took a quick look at the archive to see how resurrectable it might be. The archived sources are all CVS *,v files so those may be increasingly difficult to resurrect. However the downloads\drops\0.9.0\S201006092349\emft-mint-All-incubation-0.9.0RC4.zip appears to have clean *.java files.

As it stands I think MINT aspired to too many EMF added value functionalities that overlap with Modisco. If the MINT code was rescued and trimmed to just the functionality that colors the outline view, the result might be small enough and simple enough to contribute to another project such as EMF itself. However Java 8 and @NonNull have happened since MINT was archived and so a bit of modernisation is almost certainly needed before before a mini-MINT could be folded into emf.edit.ui

Any volunteers?

Regards

Ed Willink

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1835919 is a reply to message #1781661]

Wed, 16 December 2020 08:55

Eclipse User

Dear, I'm interested to have a look at the source code of MINT. Where can I download it?

Sorry, I can edit: I think I have the sources, because I have an old Eclipse with MINT installed as dropins, and I have sources:
org.eclipse.emf.mint.source_0.9.0.v201006142335.jar
org.eclipse.emf.mint.ui.source_0.9.0.v201006142335.jar

Thanks,

[Updated on: Wed, 16 December 2020 08:57] by Moderator

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1835932 is a reply to message #1835919]

Wed, 16 December 2020 14:32

Eclipse User

Hi

Follow the links in my previous post.

Regards

Ed Willink

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1835938 is a reply to message #1835932]

Wed, 16 December 2020 15:54

Eclipse User

Dear Ed, files in the mint.tgz file appears to be invalid, with an strange extension ",v" that I can't open. Example: ".project,v", "plugin.xml,v"...

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1835947 is a reply to message #1835938]

Wed, 16 December 2020 23:45

Eclipse User

Yes, it looks like all of it have *,v names and have some type of CVS history encoded in them. Only the webmaster know how they created this and how one should recover the source from this, so you could ask on that Bugzilla.

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1835956 is a reply to message #1835947]

Thu, 17 December 2020 03:37

Eclipse User

Hi

CVS is/was an older simpler CM system that preceded SVN and GIT. It used a single comma file per actual file to track with per-line incremental differences, so that if you really wanted you do a search across all versions ever. If you install an old perhaps 5/10 year old version of Eclipse you will that it has CVS support and the comma files will be sensibly handled as history. Alternatively you might try TortoiseCVS (disclaimer: I have only used TortoiseSVN).

After a 25 minute download of mint.tgz, WinZip reports that the archive is invalid for me. I haven't retried. The archive is just a simple as-is copy of everything in the project at the time of archive. It therefore contains all the CVS comma files that you don't really want to look at without a CVS tool.

My comment
Quote:

However the downloads\drops\0.9.0\S201006092349\emft-mint-All-incubation-0.9.0RC4.zip appears to have clean *.java files.

presumably indicates that if you select that path within the archive you will find directly useful Java files that formed part of the source of the 0.9.0RC4 release.

Regards

Ed Willink

Re: Mint tool, where can I find it? [message #1835958 is a reply to message #1835956]

Thu, 17 December 2020 03:44

Eclipse User

Hi Ed Willink, finally I take the 2 jar sources that I post before. I have it in my hard disk for years, like a treasure :D
I'm adapting it to use within a plugin we use in our company, but I think I have no time to adapt it correctly to be deployed in Eclipse.
Thanks

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