@Davide: maybe this document can give you some more insight:
https://github.com/groovy/groovy-eclipse/wiki/Updating-the-groovy-in-groovy-eclipse
@all: please don't forget that Groovy is used in Eclipse even when not
with Grails.
I mean, I've started to introduce Groovy in my team to write unit tests
and other kind of specific code (JSF backing beans and service classes,
for instance) for which I think that Groovy can give a good boost to
productivity. I spent however a lot of time to struggle against Groovy
static compilation bugs and (particularly) with the uncountable
Groovy-Eclipse bugs and now that Pivotal announced they stopped to
support the whole Groovy ecosystem I'm really disappointed, but above
all worried about the future.
I mean, I know Groovy now has already a new home at Apache, however I
never had a real fear for it, since I think it already has a good team
behind it and a vibrant ecosystem built on top of it. What really scares
me is that, in contrast, the development efforts on the Groovy-Eclipse
plugin have always be little to nothing: the plugin has always suffered
from severe problems, but after Pivotal had took it and I could talk to
Andy Clement to highlight some of them, it received a good boost from 3
new developers that were put to work on the plugin. This until some
months ago, when development stopped again... and now the complete drop
by Pivotal :-(
I've read a lot about Groovy and Grails future, but almost no word about
future Groovy support for the Eclipse platform.
I really think that Groovy can't shine without a good support from the
(probably most) widely used IDE out there, Eclipse, so I really hope
that this is taken in deep consideration by the Groovy team.
And no, I can't switch to another IDE because of Groovy, for many
reasons. The number of Eclipse tools and plugins we use is significant
and I can't force the whole company to change IDE just because of Groovy
support from it. No offence, but if I really have to make a choice here,
I'm sorry to say that I must choose to drop Groovy and replace it with
Java (or some other alternative).
Thanks a lot.
Mauro
Il 07/04/2015 15:03, david.daw...@simplicityitself.com ha scritto:
Out of interest is there anywhere to read why this is the case? (patches that
can't be applied to the mainline).
Not wanting to rehash, just gain a little context if that's alright...
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Original Message
From: Cédric Champeau
Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015 13:59
To: dev@groovy.incubator.apache.org
Reply To: dev@groovy.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: GGTS/ Eclipse support for the groovy ecosystem
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.
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...
2015-04-07 14:49 GMT+02:00 Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk>:
On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 21:00 +0000, KARR, DAVID wrote:
[…]
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.
The Gradle plugin is indeed now part of Eclipse. cf.
http://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-plugin-for-eclipse/8670
and https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.buildship
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