Re: Eclipse command line formatter

[Michael Koch]

Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2005 08:18 schrieb Ben Konrath:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just finishing up work on the headless Eclipse Java formatter
> patch:
>
> http://www.bagu.org/eclipse/org.eclipse.jdt.core-formatter-applicat
>ion.patch
>
> I just tried it out the entire classpath tree and found a bug, so
> that's definitely not the final version of the patch.

Thanks, really good work.

> I'm not even sure that eclipse.org will take it, if they don't it
> will end up in a packaged version of eclipse near you. (Does this
> mean I should make some debian packages for eclipse? :)

Adding this to Debian package is a good idea. Please send the final 
patch address@hidden We (the Debian people) will then 
take care of it.
 
> So next on the TODO list for this is to make a slim and trim custom
> app with this so that it's actually useful for you.
>
> I didn't add an option to fix the imports because the solution
> involves a little refactoring and therefore would be more difficult
> to maintain if it is not accepted upstream. From past experience I
> have found the eclipse.org developers to be very hard engage in
> dialogue about enhancements, so don't cross your fingers about
> getting this in. This all said, there might be an easy way to add
> the "fix imports" option in the slim-trim app that I'm about to
> whip up but I won't know until I do it. How important in is option?

I think we can live with this. Having a working formatter at all is 
BIG step forward.


Thanks again,

Michael
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