Last week was the last milestone (M7) for this year's release train (Galileo). We're pretty happy with the result. It's in a much better shape than what was available after M6 as we cleaned up a number of things and fixed many bugs.
Besides that Xtext now supports lazy linking, the
content assist framework has been overhauled and finally is in a shape we're very happy with. In addition M7 enables
template proposals (including corresponding preference page) for all languages without the need for any extra programming or configuration. Also the preference page for syntax coloring now works as expected.
Finally we made some progress regarding the
EMF Index.
See the
New & Noteworthy document for the whole list of changes in M7.
Xtext now contains all features and concepts we wanted it to have in the final release.
There will be five release candidates (RC) before the final build will be made available:
| RC1 | 05/19/2009 |
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| RC2 | 05/26/2009 |
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| RC3 | 06/02/2009 |
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| RC4 | 06/09/2009 |
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| RC5 | 06/16/2009 |
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| 0.7.0 | 06/28/2009 |
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We'll spend the next weeks on improving the overall user experience. This includes things like
- Documentation
- Website
- Wizards
- UI polishing
- minor code clean ups
- Bug fixing
In order to allow you helping us ;-), we've prepared a set of Galileo M7 distros containing everything necessary to get started with Xtext. The zips can be downloaded from itemis' website:
Any
feedback is as always highly appreciated. Have fun!
