New Scala Plugin

[gullcatcher]

In response to Episode 164, Dick was talking about the state of Scala
tooling. I've recently started using Sean McDirmid's rewritten Scala
plug-in for Eclipse http://technically.us/code/archive/2007/9#item-4370
and compared to the previous incarnation, it is awesome. Code
completion is really fast, and appears to be a lot more complete.

It claims to be in beta, but I don't know if I know what beta means
nowadays. ;)

[jvb]

Do you have the URL where it can be downloaded from, or the eclipse
update URL? The URL you've given leads to nabble which seems to be
down...

I'm really looking forward to see what has improved in this version of
the plugin.

thnx
Jan

[David Linsin]

Hi Jan,

this link might help you:

http://www.dzone.com/links/eclipse_scala_plugin_beta.html

regards, david
http://dlinsin.blogspot.com

[jvb]

On Feb 26, 10:40 am, David Linsin <dlin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> this link might help you:
>
> http://www.dzone.com/links/eclipse_scala_plugin_beta.html

I've came across that page while googling for it as well, but that
leads me an the eclipse update URL http://lamp.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/scala.update/plugins/
which seems to contain an older version (2.6.something) then what can
be found on the 'official' eclipse URL http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/scala-plugin/.
The 'official' plugin is at version 2.7.something. Also comparing the
timestamps from the files of both URLs confirms my idea that this is
not the beta plugin we are looking for.

regards
Jan

[Marcelo Fukushima]

if im not mistaken, the current plugin is at an alpha stage, with a
publicly announced beta to come (shortly?)

meanwhile, if youre eager to try, you can get the sources and compile
it yourself - but it might be a tad bit unstable at the moment

--
[]'s
Marcelo Takeshi Fukushima

[David Linsin]

Thanks for the heads-up I would have checked it out myself tonight,
but since it seems like there are no binaries, I'll rather wait for a
while....

On Feb 26, 1:11 pm, jvb <janvanbes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 10:40 am, David Linsin <dlin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > this link might help you:
>
> >http://www.dzone.com/links/eclipse_scala_plugin_beta.html
>
> I've came across that page while googling for it as well, but that

> leads me an the eclipse update URLhttp://lamp.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/scala.update/plugins/

> which seems to contain an older version (2.6.something) then what can

> be found on the 'official' eclipse URLhttp://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/scala-plugin/.

[Dianne Marsh]

Yeah, it looks like you have to build yourself from sources.

Bummer.
Dianne

[carl]

Hmm... I see a nice plugin ready to install. On the left sidebar at
http:/www.scala-lang.org there is a 2008-02-14 dated Scala plugin
2.7.0-RC2, which has instructions at: http:/www.scala-lang.org/tools/
eclipse/index.html

This seems to match the latest Scala too. Very nice.

So far it looks nice on my older Eclipse 3.3 install on my Mac at
home. Next, to try a newer Eclipse at work...

[David Linsin]

Code completion is not working...and frankly as never been working for
me.

Anyone else who knows how to make it work?

On Feb 27, 8:09 am, carl <carl.qu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm... I see a nice plugin ready to install. On the left sidebar at
> http:/www.scala-lang.orgthere is a 2008-02-14 datedScalaplugin
> 2.7.0-RC2, which has instructions at: http:/www.scala-lang.org/tools/
> eclipse/index.html
>

> This seems to match the latestScalatoo. Very nice.