I'd like to propose that the org.codehaus.groovy plugin be split into a
runtime plugin and a development plugin. The main reason is to trim down
the size of the plugin required for running groovy code. I have an RCP
application that uses groovy. If I include the org.codehaus.groovy
plugin, that's 12MB because it includes all the classes twice (once in
groovy-all-*.jar and once in the separate jars for groovy and its
dependencies) and the source.

I suggest moving antlr-2.76.jar, asm-2.2.jar, asm-tree-2.2.jar and
groovy-1.5.1.jar to org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.core. I think
commons-cli-1.0.jar could be removed altogether. The source files can be
moved to generated source plugins. This will leave the runtime
org.codehaus.groovy plugin lean and mean for use in RCP applications.

I have these changes made in my local workspace and am currently testing
them. Everything seems to be working well.

Dave Dunkin
Technologist
DIS Corporation
800.426.8870



---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list please visit:

  http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email