Hi all,

Currently, groovy files outside of groovy projects are handled in a
bit of a haphazard way. They are not compiled, but they are
occasionally sent to the compiler (eg- for reconciling to create the
outline view). The benefit is that when editing these kinds of files,
you will get some nice support (like outline view and some sort of
meager content assist and navigation). However, the downside is that
reconciling these groovy files outside of groovy projects is flaky at
best. Often parser or compiler exceptions will be thrown due to
missing dependencies.

So, my question(s) to everyone is (are): Do you use groovy files
outside of groovy projects? In what way? How do you expect them to
behave (ie- is simple syntax highlighting sufficient, or do require
more support)? For those of you who use the Groovy Script launcher,
are you running groovy scripts on the classpath, or are they outside?

Currently, the price to pay for anything more than simple syntax
highlighting are an excessive amount of exceptions in the error log.
It would be a significant amount of work to fix the compiler/parser to
handle these situations. So, I have a mind to disable reconciling for
groovy files outside of groovy projects. Is anyone violently opposed
to this? Or even mildly opposed to this?

Reply here or comment on:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRECLIPSE-481

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