[photran] Slow 3.0 and missing editor class in 3.1 Beta

["Tom Edwards" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,
I was wondering if I could ask a question? I have found myself working
on a Windows machine (hopefully only temporarily) and am trying to get
a working implementation of photran in order to get some work done. I
have tried using the 3.0 version from the distributed archive without
the included gdb, gfortran etc as I don't have administrator
privileges, however this version seems to hang for 5/10 seconds
whenever it loads a file. A little searching through this list
suggests that this is a problem with the parser and the nature of my
files or is it a result of a tool or utility not being there? I have
investigated switching off a lot of the extra parts to try and improve
performance however this seems to have had no effect.
With this in mind I tried out the beta release, first by using the
packaged which includes eclipse base and also by adding "features" to
a base eclipse installation of the CDT and photran. In both cases the
editor cannot be loaded when looking at f90 files (I've not tried with
fixed format), with the root error being:

"java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.eclipse.photran.internal.ui.editor.FortranFreeFormEditor"

I was wondering if anyone had encountered this error and knew the
cause? I believe I have had a similar error in my previous attempts to
get photran working, however this is only a distant recollection.

Many thanks,

Tom