[n4js-dev] Heads up: breaking changes coming soon

[Mark-Oliver Reiser <mark-oliver.reiser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

we will soon merge a clean-up of the output code and N4JS runtime, including breaking changes to the transpiler that require

corresponding breaking changes in npm package “n4js-runtime” (probably Oct 8).

See PR:

https://github.com/eclipse/n4js/pull/1502

For developers, this means:

1) when merging master into any topic branch, you have to rerun workflow BuildN4jsLibs.mwe2; otherwise tests *will* fail.

2) in example projects in a runtime Eclipse started from your developer workspace, you have to use a new version of

the n4js-libs (mainly “n4js-runtime”). This new version will be 0.15.0 (will be published tomorrow after we merge GH-1485

to master).

As long as you do not merge in master and you have defined specific versions of the n4js-libs in the package.json’s of any

example projects (as is recommended), you should not be affected.

Cheers and happy coding!

Oliver