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

It doesn't sound like this is something we can realistically promise yet.
This has been waiting a while for a reply, so unless anyone objects I will
post my suggestion soon.

Ganesh

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, 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:
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> > "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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> > > >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 Wed Dec 22 23:42:07 2004