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

Let's not ignore all the work that would have to be done in Soot for
Java 1.5.

Ondrej

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:38:49PM +0000, 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 17:53:44 2004