Spoofax 1.1 -- released February 15, 2013

* NaBL name binding language

* Q&A on YellowGrass^?

Download

• Update sites changed:
  • http://download.spoofax.org/update/stable for STABLE release
  • http://download.spoofax.org/update/unstable for UNSTABLE build (currently out of date)
  • http://download.spoofax.org/update/nightly for TRUNK-based build

Documentation

License

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This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

Support

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Spoofax 1.1 - released February 15, 2013

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Summary of Changes

Full issue list on YellowGrass http://yellowgrass.org/tag/Spoofax/1.1

Publications

NaBL Name Binding Language

A major (we think it is revolutionary) innovation in Spoofax 1.1 is the NaBL name binding language.

Eclipse

• full support on Eclipse 3.7 and 3.8

• Spoofax should be used with Eclipse Classic, as it conflicts with Web Tools Platform included in Eclipse for Java Developers. This is detailed in the issue http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Spoofax/620 and there's a note about this at http://strategoxt.org/Spoofax/Download under Incompatibilities.

Project Building

• Generation of .gitignore file for new projects. Documented at http://webdsl.org/spoofaxwiki/wiki/version%20control

• A proper clean task in generated Ant builder, makes it easy to do a thorough clean job before committing to VC. Also documented at http://webdsl.org/spoofaxwiki/wiki/version%20control

• Project > Clean menu now cleans the project

• Much more of the generated files can now be safely deleted (clean takes care of this)

• The New Project wizard now supports creation of minimal project instead of full Entity

• Display warning on start-up if Eclipse is not started with the necessary arguments (stack, heap, permgen)

• Fix issue causing the file associations in Eclipse preferences to be unusable (http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Spoofax/152)

• Selective disable of sometimes broken completions tests in SPT. Issue and workaround described at http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Spoofax/544

• Preliminary support for building projects outside of Eclipse. Should work for most straight-forward projects that do not hook deeply into Eclipse directly. Documented at http://webdsl.org/spoofaxwiki/wiki/cmdline%20builds

- The new project wizard now supports creation of minimal project instead of full Entity - Display warning on start-up if Eclipse is not started with the necessary arguments (stack, heap, permgen) - Fixed the issue causing the file associations Eclipse preferences issue to be unusable (http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Spoofax/152) - Spoofax should be used with Eclipse Classic, as it conflicts with Web Tools Platform included in Eclipse for Java Developers. This is detailed in the issue http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Spoofax/620 and there's a note about this at http://strategoxt.org/Spoofax/Download under Incompatibilities. - Selective disable of sometimes broken completions tests in SPT. Issue and workaround described at http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Spoofax/544 - Preliminary support for building projects outside of Eclipse. Should work for most straight-forward projects that do not hook deeply into Eclipse directly. Documented at http://webdsl.org/spoofaxwiki/wiki/cmdline%20builds