Re: [abc] Re: [abc-users] Schedule for annotations etc.

Hm, yeah, that would be more realisic.
Thinking about it, I'm not sure which one is better from a marketing
perspective. Maybe the old one would keep users more interested (sorry
I'm kind of changing my position here..)

Sascha

Oege de Moor wrote:
> But we are pretty certain it will be done by summer.
>
> So shall we say: "... but we expect it will be done by the end of summer."
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Sascha Kuzins wrote:
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>
>>I'm not sure if we can really offer complete java 1.5 support within a
>>few months, especially with no suitable front-end in sight.
>>Doesn't mean we can't promise it anyways, but... :-)
>>
>>Sascha
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>>Oege de Moor wrote:
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>>>I think we can be more firm.
>>>
>>>"We are actively involved with the ajc team in the design of AspectJ 5.
>>>Regarding annotations, this is not very difficult to implement, and indeed
>>>we already have done the lexer and parser to support these. Generics
>>>require some substantial changes to the underlying Java compiler
>>>(Polyglot), and we are working with the Polyglot team towards realising
>>>those in the medium term. We don't have a definite schedule, but we're
>>>talking no more than a few months."
>>>
>>>On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Support for Java 5 is something we hope to roll out gradually; the first
>>>>priority will be to support weaving into Java 5 class files using the
>>>>existing AspectJ language. We have been involved in the design of the
>>>>annotations extensions and other features of AspectJ 5, and we would hope
>>>>to also be able to support these quickly. Unfortunately, we cannot promise
>>>>any definite timescales at present."
>>>>
>>>>How's that sound?
>>>>
>>>>Ganesh
>>>>
>>>>On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Pavel Avgustinov wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Who will come up with the "official" reply to this? We should mention
>>>>>we're involved in the design of AspectJ 5, perhaps...
>>>>>
>>>>>- P
>>>>>
>>>>>Eric Bodden wrote:
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>>>>>>Hello ABC developers.
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>>>>>>Since last week the Eclipse and AJC team were making a huge jump
>>>>>>forward with annotations support: Do you have a schedule already for
>>>>>>an ABC version that will support them (and probably other Java 5
>>>>>>features)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>>Eric
>>>>>>
>>>>>>- --
>>>>>>Eric Bodden
>>>>>>Chair I2 for Programming Languages and Program Analysis
>>>>>>RWTH Aachen University
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Received on Mon Dec 20 13:52:10 2004