Rodin Platform 1.2 Release Notes

What's New in Rodin 1.2?

• Event-B Editor

Section expanding. A preference has been added for section expanding (See "Window > Preferences > Event-B > Modelling UI"). More precisely, this new option allows to specify that the sections shall not be expanded when unfolding an element of the Event-B editor. By default, any section of an element is expanded (as in previous releases).

Generated elements. The generated elements (e.g., produced by UML-B or the decomposition plug-in) cannot be edited, and appear grayed in the Event-B editor. This feature concerns whole generated contexts/machines, as well as other Event-B elements such as events, variables, ...

• Proving Perspective

Easily creating new projects or components. Shortcuts have been added to the "File > New" menu of the Proving perspective to create a new Event-B project or a new Event-B component.

Copying from the proof skeleton to the proof tree. It is now possible to copy a subtree of a stored proof from the proof skeleton view to an edited proof tree. See also Copy/Paste to Proof Tree.

Hypothesis View. A dropdown list is now included to the Hypothesis view, to toggle the "Consider hidden hypotheses" preference directly from the hypothesis view. A quick search field and its related buttons have been added.

• Rewriting Rules and Inference Rules

The existing rules have been reviewed and several implemented rules have been fixed.

FIN_FUN1_R, FIN_FUN2_R, FIN_FUN_IMG_R, FIN_FUN_RAN_R and FIN_FUN_DOM_R. The well-definedness condition was not implemented. See also Inference Rules.

DISTRI_RANSUB_BUNION_R, DISTRI_RANSUB_BINTER_R, DISTRI_DOMSUB_BUNION_L and DISTRI_DOMSUB_BINTER_L. These rules were wrongly defined and wrongly implemented. See the history of the Relation Rewrite Rules page for details.

• Migration to Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)

The extension point org.eclipse.core.contenttype.contentTypes is now used instead of the deprecated org.eclipse.core.runtime.contentTypes.

The method "org.osgi.service.prefs.Preferences.flush" is used instead of the deprecated org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin.savePluginPreferences.

• Predicate variables extension

Added support for predicate variables in the AST library.

• Generated elements

In the previous release, it was possible to mark an Event-B machine/context as generated, in order to prevent users from inadvertently modifying it.

In this release, more fine-grained "read only" restrictions are enforced and any internal element may be tagged as generated (org.eventb.core.generated="true").

Requirements

• It is recommended to run the Rodin platform with a Java 1.5 Runtime Environment.
• Only a 32-bit version of the Rodin platform is provided. Some optional libraries dedicated to 32-bit support may be required in order to run it on a 64-bit OS. Moreover, you will have to install a 32-bit Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and then to set the -vm option to make sure that Rodin is run with the correct JVM.

eg. /usr/local/rodin/rodin -vm /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java (You have to adjust paths to your system.)

External plug-ins

TODO: Describe here the available plug-ins, and the supported versions for this release.

• Decomposition Plug-in 1.0
• Camille Text Editor Plug-in 1.1

B Method Update Site

• Atelier B Provers
• B2Rodin
• Brama

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Bugs Fixed and Feature Requests Implemented

  Bug 1819316: Existential PO does not discharge
  Bug 1820566: Problem with naming in Windows 
  Bug 1824569: Error Markers in Synthesis view do not update
  Bug 1922694: Crazy Copy/Paste
  Bug 1977355: Edit tab does not reflect changes made by other programs
  Bug 2031274: Rename problem
  Bug 2657540: Synthesis view: elements inverted
  Bug 2815882: Primed identifiers are allowed
  Bug 2818587: Machine renaming not propagated to extends clauses
  Bug 2880858: Wrong arithmetic simplification
  Bug 2883204: Symbols View not directly accessible
  Bug 2884511: Rewritten formula should be type checked exception
  Bug 2884753: Oftype makes assert exception errors in hypotheses page
  Bug 2884774: No indication of Theorem guards in pretty print tab
  Bug 2891365: Unexpected Error (possibly stack overflow)
  Bug 2893379: Can't edit Refinement if var and event have the same name
  Bug 2900389: Event-B keyboard does not translate "or"
  Bug 2900456: Empty Goal Window
  Bug 2901018: "distinct variable" requirement in lambda abstraction
  Bug 2908239: id (identity function) ill-typed in rodin
  Bug 2909409: Unavoidably too many open handles?
  Bug 2916130: The lasso command selects hidden hypotheses
  Bug 2931424: NPE in SearchHypothesis view
  Bug 2936324: Extends clauses in pretty print
  Bug 2938707: instable Event B machine editor (v1.2RC1)
  Bug 2939467: SWTException: Graphic is disposed when saving proofs
  Bug 2940139: org.eventb.core.seqprover.totalDom:0 unsound
  Bug 2941295: Race condition in XProverCall and descendants
  
  FR 1614997: Theorems following event guards
  FR 1866809: Rewriting automatically dom(f) = S
  FR 1942714: Set comprehension rewrite
  FR 2073763: Support for "new" sets of relations
  FR 2740294: Functions on finite set are finite
  FR 2844800: Copy from Proof Skeleton to Proof Tree
  FR 2922261: Launch prover(s) automatically on added hypothesis
  FR 2937100: Traces for Simplification Rewriter
  FR 2937127: Symbol Table view

Known Issues

• Early releases of XULRunner 1.9.1 may cause an SWT exception that prevents from opening an editor (as well as any browser-based ui component). More recent releases fix this bug (works fine with xulrunner-1.9.1.7). Alternatively, it is possible to specify XULRunner path to point to 1.9.0: edit "rodin.ini" and add the following line:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.14

where "/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.14" must be replaced with your actual XULRunner 1.9.0 installation directory.

• Using Rodin on GNOME desktop may result in a situation where buttons lock windows. To avoid this situation, it is needed to launch Rodin with

GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 /path_to_rodin/rodin

It's a GTK bug, referenced for Eclipse at [[1]]
See also Gnome and broken buttons.

• A warning like the following one is displayed to the standard output when platform starts on GNOME desktop:

(rodin:17254): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

It's a GNOME bug. Information found there: [[2]]

• The error log shows the following problem:

org.osgi.framework.BundleException: The bundle could not be resolved. Reason: Missing Constraint: Import-Package: org.eclipse.equinox.internal.util.event; version="1.0.0"
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.getResolverError(AbstractBundle.java:1313)
...

It's an Eclipse 3.5 bug. Information found there: [[3]]

• The list of the currently open bugs is given below:

TODO: Add here a link to the SourceForge Bugs page, after filtering bugs (Assignee Any, Status Open, Category Any, Group 1.2).

  Bug 1441596: Tool conflicts caused by identically named files
  Bug 1737819: WD properties are not fully propagated
  Bug 1766826: Error messages from math parser incomprehensible
  Bug 1813657: Refactoring menu is not related to refactoring
  Bug 1818464: Trivial PO does not discharge
  Bug 1824177: B4free prover translation for <<-> fails
  Bug 1841129: Incorrect proof status
  Bug 1897572: Error in Proof Obligation Generator
  Bug 1919546: P1,PP,M0-M3 not available as post tactic
  Bug 1948095: importing existing projects
  Bug 1949927: newPP is too sensitive to unused hyps
  Bug 1954442: Too many handles used by Edit page on Windows
  Bug 2082375: input file write-protection a problem to Rodin
  Bug 2105507: too difficult to work with explicit set expressions
  Bug 2174629: No PO generated for unrefined event
  Bug 2371318: Unable to apply equality from left to right
  Bug 2414463: Builder called on non-Rodin files
  Bug 2433212: Poor performance under KDE
  Bug 2510307: Proof information window empty for grd/WD
  Bug 2531738: RODIN crash adding text to note or text box in class diagram
  Bug 2573332: Long formulas get truncated
  Bug 2630205: reasoning with "finite" clause
  Bug 2648946: Predicate Provers (newPP, P0) unable to discharge simple PO
  Bug 2656831: saving proofs does not always work
  Bug 2694492: proB widget do not display on second proB launch
  Bug 2744052: NullPointerException in Builder on cyclic refinement
  Bug 2782126: Your platform does not support SWT Browser widget.
  Bug 2782243: BraveSansMono
  Bug 2817523: No paste in root contextual menu of explorer
  Bug 2824204: Change to Rodin Elements not reflected in editor
  Bug 2827806: Zombie files in buffer
  Bug 2835692: Text Editor exception
  Bug 2836774: Text Editor unable to save  (exception)
  Bug 2844786: Invisible icons in Proof Control coolbar
  Bug 2844797: The Proof Skeleton View does not adapt to the container
  Bug 2844813: Turnstile unicode character
  Bug 2869663: Changing the font in the pretty print view
  Bug 2871281: Bad display of marked math symbols
  Bug 2871290: Comments are still editable in a generated model
  Bug 2882318: Error while entering symbol from symbol table
  Bug 2883199: Fix "new" actions
  Bug 2886026: "Overflow" in partition rewriting
  Bug 2893782: error when building new project with a context
  Bug 2894645: Error on context named "axioms"
  Bug 2895507: MH and other rules are ill-defined
  Bug 2900427: Event-B keyboard does not translate "or"
  Bug 2916134: Atelier-B PP does not understand S /= {}
  Bug 2931450: editor extension - clause names defined in wrong element
  Bug 2934585: animB : impossible to start animation
  Bug 2937124: Symbol Table and Properties
  Bug 2937132: newPP unresponsive
  Bug 2940315: mod operator should be compatible with itself
  Bug 2940575: some fomulas are truncated
  Bug 2941496: NewPP outputs incorrect set of required Hypotheses
  Bug 2942182: unparsing then parsing gives a different expression