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Add support for code browsing and content assist of Grapes (aka @Grab dependencies)

Open marco-brandizi opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

I'd like to propose to reconsider #236, that is: make some integration of the Grape dependency manager with the Groovy plug-in.

Grape is great and it makes Groovy very practical for writing quick scripts, prototypes, etc. However, it is also very impractical to use it, without some integration with Eclipse.

While I understand the problem of multiple classpaths associated by multiple scripts in the same project, there are reasonable solutions to that, e.g., - merging all the declaration and notifying the user of possible conflicts - manual right-click on a @Grab annotation to include the corresponding dependency to the project classpath.

As it stands now, the Groovy plug-in is of little use to me, without this feature (and consequently, so is Groovy).

marco-brandizi avatar Sep 28 '17 08:09 marco-brandizi