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

right, or even get some volunteers to help :-)

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Sascha Kuzins wrote:

>
> 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:
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Oege de Moor wrote:
> >>
> >>>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:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>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 13:54:20 2004