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

Sorry, I think I missed that when I was going back through emails. I'll
send what you suggested, with some modifications to make it not sound like
we think annotations in Soot are easy.

Ganesh

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Oege de Moor wrote:

>
> I'm sorry, but I do disagree; your proposal runs the risk of
> scaring away potential users.
>
> As I've suggested before, I would be happier with changing
> the last sentence of my proposal to something like
> "We do not have a definite schedule yet, but we are hoping
> to complete support for AspectJ 5 by the end of summer."
>
> Do what you feel is best, however: I'm really going offline
> now, not thinking about aspectj for at least a few days :-)
>
> -O
>
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>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
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> > 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:
> > >
> > > > "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 Thu Dec 23 20:12:12 2004