User:Nicolas/Collections/ADVANCE D3.4 General Platform Maintenance
This part describes the general maintenance performed on the Rodin toolset within the last year of the ADVANCE project. As the maintenance is a task that concerns the whole toolset, and to ease the reading of this part of the deliverable, the maintenance section has been decomposed in a list of subsections corresponding to scopes of the toolset. All these subsections maintain the template previously defined in the introduction.
Core Rodin platform
Overview
During the last period of the ADVANCE project, the following versions of the Rodin platform have been released:
- 3.0.1 (2014-06-11).
- 3.1.0 (2014-10-??).
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Other running tasks consisted in answering questions on mailing lists, and processing bug tickets and feature requests.
Motivations / Decisions
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Available Documentation
The release notes, that appear and are maintained on the wiki, and that accompany each release, give useful information about the changes introduced by each. Moreover, two web trackers list and detail the known bugs and open feature requests:
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Conclusion
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UML-B Improvements
Overview
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Motivations / Decisions
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Available Documentation
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Conclusion
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ProR
Overview
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Motivations / Decisions
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Available Documentation
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Conclusion
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Camille
Overview
The Camille plug-in provides a textual editor for Rodin. This editor provides the same look and feel as a typical Eclipse text editor, including features most text editors provide, such as copy, paste, syntax highlighting and code completion.
During the last period of the ADVANCE project, the three new versions of Camille have been released:
- 3.0.0 - Initial release for version 3 of the Core Rodin platform. This release has been based on Camille 2.1.4.
- 3.0.1 - Port of the changes done in Camille 2.2.0 to version 3. This includes theorems in guards as well as other bugfixes. See D3.3 for details.
- 3.0.2 - Camille's structure parser has been moved to ProB's parser library. A fully automatic build process featuring continuous integration has been set up. This is the first release build by it.
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Motivations / Decisions
Move to Git / GitHub
The source files for Camille have been moved from the old Rodin SVN repository to their own repository at GitHub. The old source files have been marked deprecated. Furthermore, the move to GitHub allows us to use GitHub's infrastructure for bug tracking and feature requests. We moved old feature requests from the wiki pages to the bug / feature tracking systems at GitHub.
Build Process
Before version 3.0.2 was released, the Camille build was mostly done by hand. This turned out to be slowing down development during the last period of the ADVANCE project. Starting with release 3.0.2 we completely revamped the build process. Camille is now build automatically on each commit using a Jenkins continuous integration server [3]. This facilitates the build as well as the release process for Camille. Furthermore, it should ease collaborative development.
Move Structure Parser to ProB's Parser Library
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Available Documentation
- Architectures for an Extensible Text Editor for Rodin.[4] Bachelor thesis analysing the problem and discussing possible solutions.
- An earlier version of the thesis has been published as a technical report[5] that has been discussed on the Roding Developers Mailing List and the ADVANCE Progress Meeting in May 2012 in Paris.
- Camille GitHub Repository and Bugtracker: https://github.com/hhu-stups/camille
- Camille Wiki: http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Camille_Editor
Conclusion
Sadly, Camille still has the drawback of not supporting extensibility. It only supports the core Event-B language and plug-in-specific additions are simply ignored. Consequently, users have to switch back to Rodin's native Editor to edit plug-in-specific modelling extensions. The changes and improvements to the development process performed in the last period should finally allow for a new and completely overhauled version of Camille to be implemented.
