Descent 0.5.4 released
Extrawurst
spam at extrawurst.org
Thu Jan 29 04:27:33 PST 2009
Extrawurst wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching
>> and debugging code in D.
>>
>> Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
>>
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
>>
>> New features:
>> - Compile-time view (Window -> Show View -> Other -> D ->
>> Compile-time View): allows you to see things from the compiler point
>> of view, which applies some transformations to the source code. For
>> example you can see what happens when you do a foreach, when you
>> invoke an "extension method", when you do operator overloading; know
>> what type has an auto variable; how struct fields are accessed?;
>> compiler optimizations. It also removes conditionals that evaluate to
>> false, and shows the results of mixins in-place. As always, this is
>> far from perfect and a lot of things can be improved. For the lazies,
>> I'll later upload a video about this. :-)
>> - Now hovering over a mixin (over the "mixin" keyword) shows it's
>> result in a popup.
>> - Now hovering over a function or template instance with ctrl+shift
>> shows it's compile-time result (with shift only: it's source code).
>> - Added code templates for operator overloading, so that you don't
>> have to remember all those names. Try them by typing "op" and pressing
>> ctrl+space.
>> - Fixed ticket #160: new completion proposals: "classinfo" and
>> "outer" (when available) are shown for classes. "ptr" and "funcptr"
>> are shown for delegates.
>>
>> Please note that most of these features are experimental. (the
>> compile-time view is mostly useful to experiment with small cases to
>> see what the compiler is doing, like for example if you write "auto x
>> = [1, 2, 3];", to see what type the compiler gives to x)
>>
>> I also fixed the problem with the last version: I accidentally
>> introduced a dependency with JDT and that was causing the problems
>> most of you had, so in this version this dependency was removed and
>> updating should work as usual.
>>
>> Any suggestion, critic or bug report is welcome. You can use:
>> - the forums: http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=107
>> - trac: http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/report?action=new
>> - irc: at freenode, #d.descent
>>
>> Enjoy!
>
> Since the version 0.5.4.20090129 is available through the update manager
> updating fails with:
>
> An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
> Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,descent.ui,0.5.4.20090127.
> Exception connecting to
> http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar.
>
>
> http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar
>
> Exception connecting to
> http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar.
>
>
> http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar
>
i think the feature.xml inside the updated plugin package needs to be
updated to the new jar files.
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