[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Oct 1, 2003 (component lea

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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JDT Core:
- new automatic POST_CHANGE notification (i.e. automatic
checkpoints). 
  - Long running operations may broadcast intermediate
refresh notifications, thus
    revealing internal aspects.
  - PDE has reported this, and we believe this
could be a problem in our JDT tests,
    since we are assuming a workspace runnable
is queuing all change notifications
    until the end (and thus expect a very
specific shape of batched delta, we may
    no longer rely upon). 
  - This may account for some random JDT Core
test failures in integration/nightly build. 
  - Request: provide an API which provides the
old behavior (extra flag on
    IWorkspaceRunnable ?).

Platform Core:
- Xerces!
  - we need to decide what the story is for "life
after Xerces"
  - the right answer is to get people to convert
to using the JAXP APIs and
    then stop shipping Xerces in the Eclipse
SDK
  - do we get people in the SDK to convert to
something faster?
    - still no word on XMLPull and from
the open source committee
    - PicoXML is another light-weight XML
parsing solution (part of SMF)

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 Outreach 
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- Christophe Cornu presenting at Webservices Edge
2003 West

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 Status
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JDT Core:
- tuned the new (owned) working copy support to meet
JDT UI expectation
- new code formatter is almost complete, working on
its hundreds of preferences
- will step away from IBuffer to platform/text document
based implementation
  inside model (breaking change)

Rel Eng:
- working with Core team to fix bugs in packaging
facilities in PDE Build
- gathering information and creating examples for
article on PDE Build and
  automated builds
- bug fixing (NL tool)

Debug:
- more experimentation with background label providers
in debugger 
  - implementation will be deferred to M5
- requested new plug-in for generic string substitution
support
  - may make M5, if plug-in is created quickly
:-)
- console line trackers can be notified when a console's
streams are closed,
  via a new interface IConsoleLineTrackerExtension
- support to retrieve the available strata for a Java
class type
- bug fixing

Ant:
- bug fixing

Team/CVS: 
- wrote a document describing the progress support
that is needed in 3.0:
  - http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm-home/docs/online/team3.0/progress_support.html
- started prototyping requirements mentioned in the
progress support doc.
- CVS QuickDiff provider released.
- started porting the CVS console to the generic console.
This was put on hold
  until after M4 so that we can focus on testing
and fixing responsiveness bugs.
- debugging and testing responsiveness changes.
- started writing the Team API proposal.
- bug fixing.

Platform/JDT Text:
- bug fixing
- further improvements of regex-based find/replace
in editors
- quick diff annotations are now indistinguishable
from other annotations:
  - i.e. they can be shown in text, in the overview
ruler, and can serve as
    navigation targets
- continued work on Javadoc spelling (not yet released)
- continued work on rcp
- working on generalizing file buffers to cover files
that are not in the
  workspace

JDT/UI:
- continued working on new refactoring "Introduce
Parameter"
- started cleaning up the XML _expression_ language
used for refactoring
  participants
- continued integrating new code formatter and switching
to primary working
  copy support
- discussed the current JDT/UI AST rewriter implementation
with JDT/Core

Platform/UI (Andre):
- worked on roles and activities:
  - added summary to Platform/UI web site
  - implemented roles for launch configurations

Platform Core:
- Responsive UI:
  - background auto-build turned on by default
in integration builds
  - bug fixing related to background auto-builds
  - fixing dead lock cases in Core, Team and
their interaction
- RCP:
  - Jeff and Pascal in Austin talking to OSGi
group
  - Equinox builds being generated on a regular
basis

Help:
- added rudimentary support for roles in Help (filtering
books based on
  active roles).

PDE:
- PDE now 'tolerates' OSGi (fixed registry casting
problem)
- redesigned update site editor to be simpler and
cleaner
- source editor for extensions.xml will be in for
M4 (to support Eclipse
  bundle development)
- will will be looking at moderate PDE rework to handle
rudimentary OSGi
  bundle development scenarios (from 'New>Hello,
World bundle' to deployment)

Update:
- exploring Update redesign (how to make Update story
simpler, cleaner and
  more robust)
- working on JUnit test cases for command line update
operations.

SWT:
- more keyboard fixes to address platform differences
- 2.1.2 BIDI test pass
- critical checks added to JNI on GTK