Also I'm not sure I'm seeing what it brings to have that annotation in 1.8, could you enlighten me please?
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Luke, > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Luke Daley <luke.da...@gradleware.com>wrote: > >> [...] >> > • @DelegatesTo annotation: to help IDEs and the static type >> checker and compiler to know that method calls in a method parameter >> closure are delegated to another parameter of the method -- nice for DSLs >> like in Gradle build files >> >> Is there any possibility of getting this backported to the 1.x line? >> >> We can't upgrade to Groovy 2 until Gradle 2 because of the breaking >> binary incompatibilities, and other backwards incompatible changes. >> > > We could partially backport it, in the sense that we would "just" add the > annotation to the 1.8 line, but we wouldn't add the static type checking > and compilation support since that was only available starting from 2.0. > > But the annotation is really just an annotation in the end, hence good for > documentation purpose and for IDE support (pending Eclipse and IntelliJ > IDEA support that hint) > > >> [...] > > > > -- > Guillaume Laforge > Groovy Project Manager > SpringSource, a division of VMware > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / > Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> > -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager SpringSource, a division of VMware Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
