[antlr-interest] IntelliJ plug-in fails to save file

[Taras Tielkes]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 23:43, Jean Bovet wrote:
>> There is always a trade off between a complete and smooth integration
>> into IntelliJ and retaining as much work as possible: using the
>> custom language would require much work that has been already spent
>> in ANTLRWorks itself. But I would love to integrate ANTLRWorks more
>> into IntelliJ.... if anybody knows how to interact with IntelliJ,
>> please let me know.
> 
> I have no specific information to give you, but if you decide to embark 
> on this, you might want to consider targeting IDEA 7.0, since 
> apparently the JetBrains people do not place a high value on backward 
> compatibility of the extension / plug-in API.
> 
> I know, e.g., that the Groovy plug-in they're producing works only on 
> the early-access release of version 7.0.

Can you give any specific examples where the API was broken in recent 
years? In my experience *a lot* of effort is put in maintaining 
compatibility. Jetbrains would certainly want to hear it if something is 
broken.

As for the new, in-development, Groovy plugin running only on 7.0: 
perhaps the implementation uses new API features from IDEA 7.0?

Rails 1.2 requires a fairly recent version of Ruby, does that mean it 
has bad backward compatibility?

-tt