OAW developer telco 2008-01-07

oAW developer meeting 2008-01-07 20:00 CEST

Via Skype (host's skype name 'svenefftinge')

Attendees

Arno Haase

Bernd Kolb

Dieter Moroff

Markus Voelter

Peter Friese

Sven Efftinge

Karsten Thoms

Ueli Brawand

Agenda

1. oAW 4.2.1 maintenance / oAW 5.0
2. New Backend

Minutes

1. oAW 4.2.1 maintenance / oAW 5.0
   • There will be no oAW 4.2.1 release. However, fixes and minor features can be developed within the 4.2 branch on our SF.net CVS
   • All Eclipse related stuff will be developed on the Eclipse CVS
   • All non-Eclipse related stuff will be stay on the SF.net CVS.
   • Thus, we will have a new module oaw_v5
   • Added value can be put into the oaw_integration module (e.g. oAW perspective, etc.)
   • The various modules will be developed and released separately
   • Each module will have a module owener. Sven will start a Wiki page with a list of modules and owners.
   • naming conventions: Projects (and thus CVS modules) will be named exactly like the plug-in they contain
2. New Backend
   • Arno is working on a new backend, which will require some changes to the existing frontends
   • Question: when / how to perform those changes?
     • Peer review: Bernd and Sven (Arno sends code by email)
     • Affected frontends: languages, debugger, profiler (can be implemented afterwards), tracing (not yet available publicly)
   • Current status:
     • Process can be started using ANT - ready this week
   • Mode of operation:
     • Arno to finish work
     • Bernd and Sven to review work
     • detach debugger
     • check-in backend
     • attach languages
     • re-attach debugger
3. different call syntax among Xtend / Xpand
   • Should be restructured, but how?
   • Fulfill the Java model?
   • Name Mangling = one flat namespace in backend, while in Xpand (where it is important), inject mangled names
   • Frontend: Xtend / Xpand call semantics stay the same
   • Backend: functions can be called by their fully qualified names. However, polymorphism will then be limited to functions with the same parameters

1. Additional features
   • Polish for Xtext:
     • Enhanced Outline (Sorting / Labelling / Icons)
     • Builder to scan all Xtext files and construct an import index to facilitate importing in the editor
2. Patrick
   • Paid by itemis, available full-time for oAW
   • As always, we want to see some work before granting committer rights
   • As usual, a voting will take place

Actions

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Other Decisions

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