On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 14:55 +0200, Cédric Champeau wrote: > AFAIK, the Gradle plugin is independent from the Groovy one. While > the > latest snapshot is compatible with Groovy 2.4.3, it will not be for > future > versions of Groovy, because it effectively patches the compiler. > This means > that you will have to rely on an external tool like Gradle or Ant to > compile Groovy code under Eclipse. But if there are fixes for syntax > highlighting or errors from the compiler, they won't make it into > Groovy > Eclipse. And the Maven compiler is based on the Eclipse compiler too > I > think.
Definitely. This sub-thread was about the Gradle plugin not the Groovy plugin. Let us hope some Eclipse compiler knowledgeable people get resourced to carry on the Groovy plugin work for a reasonable length of time. > Last, IDEA 14.1 now has the option to use the Eclipse compiler. > Sounds like > a bad timing, because they added the option just when there's nobody > left > to maintain the plugin... Time to deprecate the option? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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