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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon jeeeyul

Contribute to Eclipse Foundation

Open jeeeyul opened this issue 12 years ago • 2 comments

I love to contribute my extensions to Eclipse Foundation. But I have some worries. PDE-Tools contains a lot of Xtend codes:

  • Xtend let me develop very fast. It is primary reason that makes me keep independent contribution while I work for my primary job.
  • I think codes which contributed to eclipse must be in pure Java. So other can reverse engineer it easily.
  • Xtend is not suitable for large scale project since it costs relatively long build time and unstable incremental build.
  • PDE-tools uses XCore to generate it's model.

I think, to contribute my codes, I should have to convert all codes into Java and legacy EMF generator. Am I correct?

jeeeyul avatar Dec 03 '12 02:12 jeeeyul

Using Xtend shouldn't necessarily be a problem. But the best way to find out would be to ask the PDE team themselves. The best way to do that would be to post a message on the pde-dev mailing list.

https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pde-dev

waynebeaton avatar Dec 03 '12 17:12 waynebeaton

Since xcore requires new runtime library, I removed xcore and adopt old fashioned original ecore facility :(

jeeeyul avatar Jan 03 '13 02:01 jeeeyul