Would it be fair to say there's not much appetite right now for framework support beyond groovy-the-language and gradle?
Grails has quite a lot of usage, and they aren't going to upgrade to 3 all that quickly. Are the GGTS bits somehow encumbered beyond the groovy-eclipse plugin? Or just not of interest? GGTS does work for now, so I'm not trying to push this as a priority, but I think it would help. Only an opinion ... I'll ask again in a few months .. :-) On 6 April 2015 at 22:00, KARR, DAVID <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Russel Winder [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 11:01 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: GGTS/ Eclipse support for the groovy ecosystem > > > > On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 17:38 +0200, Cédric Champeau wrote: > > […] > > > As for maintaining Groovy Eclipse (not GGTS), we should really > > try > > > to find > > > a new team capable of handling this. It is basically a set of > > patches > > > applied on the Groovy compiler (that cannot be integrated into > > the > > > normal > > > compiler for a lot of different reasons), and it needs a good > > > knowledge of > > > Eclipse. Once we find those people (that's a call!), I know that > > the > > > current Groovy Eclipse maintainers at Pivotal are willing to help > > to > > > transfer knowledge. > > […] > > > > I too am not really an Eclipse user, but there is a collection of > > people using it as their only IDE. Many of them are getting into > > Gradle (I am doing some Gradle workshops shortly to such people). > > > > The Eclipse Gradle plugin is currently a Pivotal thing, I hope that > > Gradleware will take over management of this. > > I believe that this is exactly what is happening. I was told this work is > scheduled for a first release along with Eclipse Mars, in June of this year. > > > Eclipse with Gradle can be used without the Groovy plugin, but it > > seems very clunky to do this, it all works better if both the > > Gradle > > and Groovy plugins are in place. > > > > As Jon Kerridge pointed out in another thread, and I can attest to > > personally, the snapshot Groovy plugin supports Groovy 2.4 and > > seems > > to work well. It needs to be released and framework put in place to > > manage the ongoing evolution alongside Groovy. > > > > I wonder if the Groovy (and Gradle?) plugin perhaps needs to become > > an > > Eclipse project in an analogous way that Groovy became an Apache > > one. > > > > -- > > Russel. > > =================================================================== > > ========== > > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > > sip:[email protected] > > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: > > [email protected] > > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > -- David Dawson CEO Simplicity Itself Limited Tel +44 7866 011 256 Skype: davidadawson [email protected] http://www.simplicityitself.com
