Scaliptor

Scaliptor is a set of Scala Development Tools for use with the Eclipse 3.0/3.1 Platform. It is being completed as part of a degree course in Computer Science and should be ready in March 2005.

Current release: v0.5.3

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Roadmap

The project has now ended. Continuing work on the project is no longer a priority but bug reports etc. will most likely be looked into. The following timetable explains what features were released when and what still needs to be done.

The EPFL are in the process of creating an official Scala Development Toolset so this will most likely be better than Scaliptor. Scaliptor 0.5.3 does work well though and I encourage anyone who uses Scala to try it until the SDT is available.

The source code is obviously available to anyone who wants it and it may prove useful for those looking to write their first Eclipse plugin.

I'd like to thank everyone who supported this project and who provided feedback.

Report

The full report detailing how the plugin works and evaluating Eclipse and Scala against their competition is available here.

News

• Project deadline reached, 0.5.3 released with slight improvements to Outline view.
• 0.5.2: Outline view now supports Traits.
• Bug Fix Release 0.5.1 is out. This improves the stability of the outline view and corrects the location of compiled binaries.
• Version 0.5.0 adds an outline view, improved building and the beginnings of a launch/debug interface (but it doesn't work yet). Also new is the update site so you can get eclipse to install and update Scaliptor automatically. Just point it to http://scaliptor.sf.net/updates.
• Bug Fix Release 0.3.2 fixes compilation and error marking problems and here's a new look to the website to celebrate. I think it looks a lot better but it's never gonna validate... I've tried it in FireFox and IE, but if you have any problems, let me know...
• Scaliptor 0.3.0 is released! Now it's very functional and can claim to be the world's first Scala IDE :) Please try it and report any problems you find.
• Scaliptor gets own domain! Thanks to A4M.
• Scaliptor approved by SourceForge.net! Now we have bug tracking and feature request facilities amongst many other things :) Check out the sf webpage.
• Scaliptor now has a spanking new logo thanks to Mr. Protozoa. What do you think? Why doesn't Scala have a logo?
  Updated: I've made a simple Scala logo consisting of an an Angelfish (as German for Angel fish is Scalar fisch). Send me your thoughts
• Site validates as XHTML - which is nice. Thought I may as well, seeing how simple the page is at the moment :)
• Scaliptor is alive! Syntax highlighting works...

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