Finally ! With 4.2SR2 on its way
out
the door I finally get to turn my focus back to 4.3 and
the
future.
First off is a big thank you to
everybody
involved for either helping out or at least being patient about
not being
as free to change e4 as I know you'd like.
This will be a discussion topic
for
this week's e4 meeting and everybody is welcome.
Where are we ?
I ask the question because most
of the
last year and a half is just a blur to me. I know we've talked
about many
things but I've certainly lost track of most of them. Please
speak up if
there are things that we've been holding off on in order to have
a stable
foundation for the service release(s).
My highest priority concern is to
nail
down the API (since I have to present it at EclipseCon...;-). We
can still
make changes in the API and model while getting the information
together
but only if we start pretty soon. This will allow us to make
some of the
changes we've already discussed like Parts within Parts...I'd
like to get
a working group together to hammer out the details (maybe we
could schedule
some meetings at least at the beginning ?).
I'm in the process of gathering
up what
we have so the first question is how would we like to do that,
In a bugzilla
(with related ones for each area CSS, Model, DI, services) ? In
a
GoogleDoc ? Some other way ?
Where do we want to go ?
As the effort on the
compatibility layer
starts to subside (we're not finished but we are down to true
corner cases
now IMO) we should be examining how we move the whole platform
forwards
over time. The two main themes I'm aware of are:
- Moving the platform towards a
platform
agnostic approach (i.e. not so closely tied to SWT) by examining
where
we can add new agnostic superclasses into our current code...
- Blurring the current separation
of
e4 and the IDE by
- allowing current IDE
features to be used in e4 without having to bring in the whole
IDE
- allowing the IDE to host
e4 implementations by loosening up some of the constraints in
our current
extension points / API
Are there others ?
Ah, time to have some fun :-) I
really
want to have some 'real' New & Noteworthy entries for M6
forwards,
I'm sick of having to answer the question "What can Eclipse 4 do
that
3.x couldn't?" with the word "Nothing"...split editors anyone
?
Thanks again,
Eric
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