Will the Groovy language documentation be updated?

[Fred Janon]

Is there an easy way to list the new features or changes between Groovy 1.0 and 1.5 and later?

I was trying to figure out what changed in Groovy since Groovy In Action 1st ed, so I was looking at these pages

http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/

http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/Chapter18Syntax.html

and they don't look like they have been updated for quite some time.

Is it just because the Groovy web site is not up-to-date or the documents themselves aren't?

Thanks

Fred

[Guillaume Laforge-2]

Hi Fred,

For major releases, I usually create a big article outlining all the
new features.
For instance, from Groovy 1.0 to 1.5, there's this article:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/groovy-1.5-new
And for Groovy 1.5 to 1.6, you can read the newest one there:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/groovy-1-6
The wiki is usually enhanced with the various examples / sections of
these articles progressively.
But there may well be parts which are not very much documented.
And all help is welcome to fill in the holes!

Guillaume

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:43, Fred Janon<fjanon@...> wrote:

> Is there an easy way to list the new features or changes between Groovy 1.0
> and 1.5 and later?
>
> I was trying to figure out what changed in Groovy since Groovy In Action 1st
> ed, so I was looking at these pages
>
> http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/
>
> http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/Chapter18Syntax.html
>
> and they don't look like they have been updated for quite some time.
>
> Is it just because the Groovy web site is not up-to-date or the documents
> themselves aren't?
>
> Thanks
>
> Fred
>
>

--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Head of Groovy Development at SpringSource
http://www.springsource.com/g2one

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[Fred Janon]

Thanks Guillaume.

Any chance that the specs and syntax documents would be updated at some point? Just wondering how we could get a syntax oriented editor work with Groovy if the syntax has not been updated since jsr01.

Fred

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 15:58, Guillaume Laforge <glaforge@...> wrote:

Hi Fred,

For major releases, I usually create a big article outlining all the
new features.
For instance, from Groovy 1.0 to 1.5, there's this article:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/groovy-1.5-new
And for Groovy 1.5 to 1.6, you can read the newest one there:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/groovy-1-6
The wiki is usually enhanced with the various examples / sections of
these articles progressively.
But there may well be parts which are not very much documented.
And all help is welcome to fill in the holes!

Guillaume

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:43, Fred Janon<fjanon@...> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to list the new features or changes between Groovy 1.0
> and 1.5 and later?
>
> I was trying to figure out what changed in Groovy since Groovy In Action 1st
> ed, so I was looking at these pages
>
> http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/
>
> http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/Chapter18Syntax.html
>
> and they don't look like they have been updated for quite some time.
>
> Is it just because the Groovy web site is not up-to-date or the documents
> themselves aren't?
>
> Thanks
>
> Fred
>
>

--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Head of Groovy Development at SpringSource
http://www.springsource.com/g2one

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[Guillaume Laforge-2]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:56, Fred Janon<fjanon@...> wrote:
> Thanks Guillaume.
>
> Any chance that the specs and syntax documents would be updated at some
> point? Just wondering how we could get a syntax oriented editor work with
> Groovy if the syntax has not been updated since jsr01.

The syntax is specified by the grammar, which is defined using Antlr.
We should at some point either remove those old pages / links or try
to reproduce some more up-to-date ones.

--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Head of Groovy Development at SpringSource
http://www.springsource.com/g2one

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