Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Nov 5, 2003

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Equinox
- all major structure work is well in
hand though bugs remain.
- good progress on performance.  Equinox
is now compariable to Eclipse for non-trivial workspace startup.  Testing
with 1000 bundles is underway
- scalability design improvements are
coming online with a new resolver/state structure
- We have been focused on this new work
(going on in a branch) and have not been producing new builds for general
consumption.  Look for a new build of Equinox early next week.

Mike Wilson/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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11/04/2003 03:48 PM

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 Discussion Topics 
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From Text component (not sure if this was intended to be a discussion item
or not): 
- Cross component issue: 
  - RCP see Nick's note about that 
[ed. I didn't get a note from Nick.] 


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 Outreach 
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- How was OOPSLA? 

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 Status 
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JDT/UI: 
- bug fixing 
- reviewed two refactoring contributions 
- continued work on XML _expression_ evaluation language
- removed dependencies to org.apache.xerces 

Search: 
- continued work on improved search/replace functionality
- implemented a tree based search result presentation for
  text and Java element search 

Platform/JDT Text: 
- wrap up OOPSLA events and discussions 
- continued work on the background highly annotation painter:
  - improved stability 
  - investigating use of LineStyleListern in TextViewer to accommodate
    presentation reconciling and background highlighting in order
to 
    reduce flickering 
- background highlighting reveals errors in "Find Occurrences"
engine 
  that are continuously fixed 
- continued on roll overs, needs further architectural improvements
  to be ready for HEAD 
- started final RCP migration/merge 
- bug fixing 


Debug: 
- re-worked API for contribution of "logical variable structures"
  in the variables view. The UI now allows for individual structure
  providers to be selectively disabled. There is a new extension point
  that debug model impementors may be interested in
  - org.eclipse.debug.core.logicalStructureTypes
- added "roles" support to the debug platform. The debug platform
provides 
  filtering of launch configurations in the launch dialog, launch
history, 
  and of breakpoints in the breakpoints view.
- java launch configs now support environment variables (via a new tab)
- string substitution variables can be used in VM arguments, program
  arguments, and when specifying a working directory
- enhancements to classpath/bootpath support. The classpath tab now has
a 
  single tree for specifying the boot classpath and user classpath
(rather 
  than two tabs). 

Ant: 
- progressing with support for Ant runtime classpath entries (preferences)
  that use variables in their paths 
- progressing with support to disable the Java builder from the "External
  Tool Biulders" properties page (which will be named the "Builders"
page)