On Oct 11, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Steven Goncalo wrote:
7.0 RC2 Docs are inconsistent re version of Eclipse required.
Thanks, we will make sure these stay in sync.
Upgrading to Eclipse 3.2 may be an issue with some of the other plugins my team uses. We will do it, but not for a while.
OK, that makes at least four people who have complained about the Eclipse 3.1 -> 3.2 change. As I'm sure many of you know, it's frustrating being a software vendor: customers want you to support legacy platforms, while simultaneously expecting you to embrace new features (I get mail all the time asking why Jess isn't using Java 1.5's enums or generics, and the fallout from Java 1.4's introducing an "assert" keyword still hasn't died down!)
But enough about me. I looked into it, and the JessDE could continue to support 3.1 with no loss of functionality by using two methods deprecated in 3.2 along with a local rewrite of a new-to-3.2 utility routine. This isn't too bad, so I would like to do it and keep people happy. And Steven can have a T-shirt for his trouble, too. The downside is that we're going to have to have an RC3 release, so Jess 7 final is pushed back another week. Still, we will be able to have the final release by the end of October.
2) Is it possible to use the 70RC2 jess.jar file with the plugin jars for the last JessDE that works on Eclipse 3.1?
No, because the debugger protocol evolves, and there's a component in Jess itself as well as in the JessDE. RC1's jess.jar and RC2's JessDE debugger will not interoperate.
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