[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes Jan 15, 2002

[Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx]

JDT Core:
- index space usage improvements
- JavaCore startup improvements (ClassCircularityError
is now avoided)
- 97% of the tests of Jacks test suite
pass

JDT UI:
- AST based find occurrences in file
action
- JUnit support to run/rerun a single
test method
- class path detection improvement:
detect outputfolder and libraries
  in addition to source folders
- refactoring
  - rename refactoring can update
references in non-java files
  - new: move method refactoring
- JDT support on MacOS X
  - auto detect installed JREs
on MacOS X

Debug:
- console:
  - drop down down to select output
source
  - scroll lock toggle
- support for launching with multiple
output folders

Ant/External Tools:
- option to run external builder on
incremental or full builds
- AntView is now reusing the Ant running
options from Ant launch
  configs
- Ant Editor: Planty open source contribution
adoption has started

Platform Text / JDT Text:
- bug fixing
- planning
- supporting PDE: PDE Manifest Editor
outline+reconciling

SWT:
- want to make the 2.1 requirement for
GTK support to be: gtk2 2.0.6
(This will "fix" the following
serious bugs which are caused by bugs in
 the GTK2 implementation of table
and tree that have been fixed in 2.0.6:
  - 23503 Plugin property page
hangs Eclipse
  - 24815 cannot launch eclipse:
javacore dump
  - 28640 Double clicking on check
box crashes Control Example
  - 25623 can't select items in
Tree widget of local history
We have investigated and both SUSE 8.1
and REDHAT 8.0 ship with gtk2 2.0.6)

Core:
- on track with committed items for
2.1
- significant performance enhancements
have been included in the latest
  builds. One is w.r.t. resource
visitors. People are encouraged to take
  advantage of new resource visitor
proxy API. (IResourceProxy,
  IResourceProxyVisitor)
- still doing further performance work
for M5
- plan to release new feature work for
M5 (in the PDE-Build space)
- major work complete for linked resources.
Continue to flush out test
  suites and fix bug reports as
they come in.
- involved in the co-op training
- bug fixing

Help:
- bug fixing
- move the schemas to the help plugins
and update them with the
  documentation
- start working on help UI changes to
align help with the workbench UI more
  than in the past. Linda will
provide mockup, images, etc.
- improve standalone help when running
from read only media (i.e. cd-rom)

Update:
- bug fixing
- test JDT efix (the JDT efix was not
good)

PDE:
- bug fixing
- 'Find Unused Dependencies' feature
is ready.
- new and improved classpath computation
action is finished. For some
  projects with a huge list of
dependencies, it used to take about 1
  minute to update the classpath
of each project.  Now it takes about
  5-6 seconds for those projects.
 
- ongoing work in this area will slash
that 5-6 seconds by half.
- extension point schema transition
- need to write custom Ant task that
converts schemas to documents

RelEng:
- last week:
  - documenting public build process
  - map validator plug-in
  - tag and Release plug-in
- this Week:
  - bug Fixing
  - CHKPII (NLS checker) integration
to automated testing
  - bugzilla graphing work.
  - more plug-ins


UI:
- Platform UI 2.1 M5 plan posted on
our team page:
  - http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/main.html