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

Am I wrong in thinking that annotations are quite easy to add to Soot?

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Ondrej LHOTAK wrote:

> 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 Tue Dec 21 13:34:47 2004