- Updated minimum CDT to version
9.0(CDT from Eclipse Neon). - Removed effectively useless "Start gocode server automatically" preference.
- The GOROOT environment variable is no longer set when invoking Go tools (such as
go,gocode,godef, etc.). (#214)- This causes problems with non-archive Go installations (such as those installed into
/usr/bin), and the reason why it was set in the first place is not known - probably legacy code. Google also seems to indicate GOROOT should not be set explicitly.
- This causes problems with non-archive Go installations (such as those installed into
- Fixed: NPE when invoking Content Assist inside a comment, string or character.
- Fixed 0.16.0 regression: editor open definition hyperlink (Ctrl+click) not working. (#208)
- Fixed 0.16.0 regression: Assertion exception when opening Go files in the compare editor. (#211)
- Added documentation hover (
F2or mouse-over the reference). Also documentation added to code completion popup. - Added insertion of function arguments for function code completion proposals.
- Enabled
gocode'spropose-builtinsoption, which isn't enabled by default. - Reworked the icon and label of code completion proposals and fixed some related issues. Now the icons are consistent with the Outline icons.
- Removed preference "Show error dialog if gocode failures occur" as it's no longer necessary.
- Content Assist will now distinguish between setup errors (errors that the user can fix, which are related to configuration and not the source code) and other tool errors. For setup/critical errors, a dialog will always be shown. For the other errors, if Content Assist was invoked manually, a dialog will also be shown, but if it was activated automatically the error will only be displayed in the editor status line.
- Improved
gofmterror message. - Added: show Project Explorer error element if project is not contained in GOPATH.
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- Fixed: Eclipse variables not being substituted in environment-variable values of Build Targets and launch configurations.
- Fixed: Project Explorer GOPATH elements not updated if project GOPATH settings changed.
- Fixed: Progress dialog never showing up when "Ok" pressed in LANG_NAME project properties page.
- Fixed: Erratic text cursor bug when typing in GOPATH field and gofmt field.
- Added support for lint build target, using
gometalinter. (#163) - Added customization of the build command for Build Targets:
It's now possible to specify a command other than the default one (the
gotool).- Note however that GoClipse still expects the output of the command (the error messages) to be in the same format as the
gotool (orgometalinter).
- Note however that GoClipse still expects the output of the command (the error messages) to be in the same format as the
- Added support for invoking a specific Build Target when a GoClipse editor is saved. This is called "auto-check", and is intended for build commands that only check for compilation errors, but don't produce artifacts. This has the potential to be faster than a regular build.
- Added Building section to documentation.
- The goal for the future is to enable invoking this command on-the-fly (as the user types), although for this to be useful in practice it will likely require the compiler to support incremental compilation (or be super fast otherwise).
- Added support for modifying the environment variables of a Build Target's build command. (#191)
- The Go
oracletool is now thegurutool. GoClipse has been updated to reflect this. - Improved the default names for automatically created launch configuration.
- Improved error display for Outline operation failures.
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- Fixed "IllegalStateException: The service has been unregistered" on Mars.2 when Eclipse is closed.
- Fixed: Don't call editor save actions (such as
gofmt) when Open Definition is requested.
- Added
godefintegration.godefis used as an alternative to oracle for the Open Definition operation.- I wasn't able to use it extensively, but it seems to be more powerful than oracle (it can recover from some compiler errors for example), and faster. Indeed, most other Go IDEs/editors are using godef, so this bring Goclipse in line with that.
- Added "Format automatically on editor save." preference.
- gofmt preferences moved to "Go/Tools" preference page.
- Minor improvement to editor caret position preservation when invoking gofmt.
- Added signing to releases.
- Removed GOOS and GOARCH from preferences, they no longer have an apparent use.
- Removed godoc preference.
- Fixed: Incorrect icon for errors and warnings in preference page status.
- Fixed: Can't save preference pages with empty fields.
- Fixed: Problem markers for the #build-tests target would not be created for Eclipse projects inside a GOPATH entry.
- Fixed: Pressing Tab key does not indent according to Editor indentation preferences.
- Added on-the-fly parser errors in the editor (uses Go
oracle). - Added some new Snippets:
for,foreach,switch,main,apland a few others. - Added improved download functionality in gocode/oracle preference page.
- Pressing F2 in the editor now shows information popup for problem under cursor (same as the mouse-over hover).
- Project builder is no longer invoked when workspace "Build Automatically" setting is enabled and a file is saved. (this was considered a misfeature anyways)
- Dirty editors are now automatically saved if a build is invoked directly from a Build Target in the Project Explorer. (if the workspace "Save automatically before build" option is enabled).
- Improved Auto-Indent when Enter pressed before a closing brace.
- Added preference to control whether project location is implicitly added to GOPATH or not.
- Added gocode preference to enable/disable showing the error dialog if failures occur during Content Assist.
- Minimum and recommended CDT version is now
8.8.
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- Partially fixed outline not showing some method declarations. Now it works when editor is saved, but not if the editor is dirty. (#177)
- Fixed NPE when invoking Open Definition in a file that is available in the Eclipse workspace under more than one path/location. (#167)
- Fixed bug with Content Assist snippets using the
${word_selection}variable. - Fixed workspace resource locking when a build is invoked directly from a Build Target in the Project Explorer.
- Fixed regression: Console view always activates when a build is invoked. (#158)
- When debugging, fixed toggling breakpoints on and off for files that are outside the workspace.
- When debugging, fixed opening source files that are are outside the workspace.
- Fixed line breakpoint icon.
- Fixed: in New Go File Wizard, "Browse" button not working.
- Fixed: "Restore Defaults" in "Go Compiler" settings page sometimes causes GOPATH field to be enabled when it shouldn't.
- Fixed: project Build Targets settings pages shows wrong default for Program Path field.
- Added support for Eclipse dark theme (#131). Namely:
- Syntax/source coloring now have different settings for dark theme.
- Fixed Tools Console colors, as well as content assist pop-up colors.
- Added number literals syntax highlighting. (#138)
- Syntax highlighting now works on the source compare editor/viewer.
- Added per-project compiler installation preferences. (#152)
- Newly created launch configurations now have the debug option "Stop on startup at:" set to false by default. This way debugging won't stop on the C
main, which is essentially useless outside of C/C++.
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- Fixed: Quick outline breaks when file begins with
/* */. (#160) - Fixed: Preferences: custom setting for gofmt command is not saved. (#166)
- Fixed: AssertionFailureException pressing Enter after source with more closing braces than opening ones.
- Fixed: Unindent (Shift-Tab) broken, does nothing after empty lines in selection.
- Fixed: Outline broken, due to error "CommonException: Invalid line, out of bounds". (#156)
- Go build now displays GOOS and GOARCH environment variables in build/tools console, if a non-default value is set.
- Added UserGuide note about using Homebrew GDB in OS X.
- Fixed: when invoking Go toolchain programs, add tool directory to beginning of PATH, not end.
- Fixed: In Linux, the "Build Target" group UI widget height is broken, too short. (#150)
- Fixed: if build tool reports many error messages, the Eclipse project build will take too long to finish.
- Fixed: "Run As"/"Debug As" launch shortcut incorrectly matching pre-existing launch configurations.
- Fixed: project not being refreshed when Build Target build invoked directly from Project Explorer.
- Fixed: "null" text inserted when cancel pressed in "Variables..." and other dialogs.
- Fixed: Launch Configuration Main tab fields incorrectly modified when a new Build Target is selected (if Build Target is not using defaults)
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Added: support for Build Targets:
- Build Targets are displayed in the Project Explorer. Here you can also configure which targets are enabled for a workspace build.
- Predefined Build Targets for Go are:
./... #build,./... #build-tests,./... #[run-tests]. See the updated Build section in the UserGuide for more information. - Project Build Configuration property page updated to support configuring Build Targets.
- Note that a
./...Build Target is not launchable. To run a Go launch, you need to specify a specific Go package.
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Added: Explicit GOPATH preference option to use the same value as the GOPATH environment variable.
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No longer required to set an explicit value for the GOOS and GOARCH preference for running tools such as Go Oracle. You can just leave those fields at the default setting.
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No longer showing error dialog when gocode fails. Now, only the editor status line is updated.
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Removed
go fixmenu operation. -
Updated Configuration section in the User Guide.
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Fixed: Occasional AssertionFailure when creating new projects in nested locations (the project would not show up in Explorer).
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Fixed: Arguments field in launch configuration is not multi-line.
▶ Recommended/tested CDT version is now 8.7
- Fixed: Debugging not working on Eclipse 4.5 Mars (CDT 8.7), for certain platform/GDB combinations.
- Fixed: NPE launching a Go launch with a Go package that doesn't exists.
- Doc: added note about Cygwin GDB not being recommended for debugging.
- Fixed #135: Cannot set breakpoints in editor.
- Fixed: PATH of external tools bungled if original PATH not set (Windows).
Important changes:
- Added: rewrote Outline page to use 'oracle describe', fixes some outline parsing errors.
- Added: Quick-Outline (
Ctrl-O). - Builder: The
install -voptions are no longer hardcoded either, but are now part of the Project build options. (Fixes #119)- Warning! This is a breaking change: Existing projects will need to add
install -vto the Project build options (you can use the Restore Defaults button).
- Warning! This is a breaking change: Existing projects will need to add
- Added: Content Assist of code snippets. Configurable in
Preferences/Go/Editor/Code Snippets. - Added: Content Assist preference page, with auto-activation options.
- Upgraded minimum Java version to Java 8
- Added: Show error message dialog if starting Eclipse with a Java version below the minimum.
- Doc - User Guide: Added note about Eclipse Optimizer
▶ Recommended/tested CDT version: 8.6.0
Other changes:
- Minor changes to Content Assist icons (now has an overlay for private Go elements).
- Doc - Installation guide: Added note for users in China.
- Added #113: Append GOROOT to PATH when invoking Go oracle and other tools.
- Fixed #121: Oracle Open Definition not working for type references: "selected name does not refer to a source element".
- Fixed: #127 "null argument" error dialog when double-clicking on Go project.
- Fixed #132: Calling oracle with incorrect position when source file has non-ASCII characters. * Fixed: the preference pages are now searchable in the Preferences dialog search field, by means of relevant keywords.
- Fixed:
Tab policy: "Spaces Only"preference ignored when pressing TAB.
- Fixed: Bug
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: LANG_PROJECT_ID.ide.ui.LANGUAGE_UIPreferencesInitializer. - Fixed #118: Errors and warnings not showing in Problems view.
- Fixed #117: Incorrect highlight for single-quoted single quote.
- Added: source highlighting option for characters (instead of being the same highlighting as strings).
- Implemented #100: Make the go build target parametizable. Now the
./...target can be changed in the project's Build Options.- Warning! This is a breaking change: Existing projects will need to have
./...added to the project build options.
- Warning! This is a breaking change: Existing projects will need to have
- Fixed #112: InvalidPathException invoking content assist.
- This also fixes potential performance problems invoking content assist.
- However the documentation popup information will no longer be show for any content assist entries.
- Added two new syntax highlighting options: Operators, and Syntax Control Characters (braces, parentheses, semicolon, etc.).
- Added an improved New Project wizard.
- Editor Ctrl-click (hyperlink) now only uses Go Oracle for the operation, the previous hyperlink has now been fully removed due to being buggy.
- Improved: for Go Oracle integration, if the tool terminates with a non-zero exit code, instead of showing an error dialog, a workbench status line message is shown, a beep is sounded, and the Tools console is activated.
- Added Source submenu to editor context menu.
- Added
Show In > Project Explorercommand toShow Inmenu in Go perspective (requires that the perspective be reset:Window/Perspective/Reset Perspective...) . - Clean up UI and behavior of main Go preference page.
- Removed
gocodebundle in Goclipse as it was very out of date (closes #88).- Added button/tool in Tools pref page to automatically download gocode from Github.
- Added button/tool in Tools pref page to automatically download Go oracle from Github.
- Added: Improved build error support: an error squigly line is now show in the column where the error occurred.
- Unfortunately this does not seem to be currently supported by the Go compiler.
- Added: builder will report a warning message if .go files are containted directly in a Go workspace
srcdirectory. - Fixed #105: Project Explorer does not expand GOROOT for Go 1.4.
- Fixed some minor issues with Go To Matching Bracket action (shortcut:
Ctrl+Shift+P).
Other:
- Changed project site location to: http://goclipse.github.io/ (since Google Code is shutting down).
- Fixed: Builder does not ignore folders with names starting with "_" or ".".
- Now using "./..." pattern to specify files to compile.
- Fixed: Project wizard: only create "bin,pkg,src" folders if project is not already in the GOPATH.
- Renamed
gocode logconsole toOracle/gocode log. Clarified UserGuide about the use of these tools. - Fixed: no error dialog is shown to the user if 'Run As'/'Debug As' context action results in a error.
- Fixed: 'Run As'/'Debug As' now properly creates the Go package of the new launch configuration.
- Fixed: The "Program" selection field, of the Go launch configuration tab, now asks for a Go main package, instead of Go source file.
▶ Recommended/tested CDT version: 8.4.0
- Added: A simplified project builder that delegates to the
go installcommand all the build work. (fixes #64)- This should improve compilation speed, since Goclipse no longer tries to figure out package dependencies itself. (and is likely more robust)
- Disabled continuous testing feature, as the feature became broken.
- Goclipse now uses one global build console only, instead of one per project.
- Added Ctrl-click open definition functionality using the Go Oracle tool.
- Path to the
oraclecommand can be configured in the Go/Tools preference page. - Open Definition using Go Oracle can now also be invoked in an editor with the F3 key.
- Path to the
- Added #84: Goclipse projects can now be created inside the "src" folder of a GOPATH entry, and invoking the toolchain (gocode, oracle, build, etc.) will be handled correctly for this scenario.
- Note: with such projects, the project location will not be implicitly added to the GOPATH entries, as the project is part of the GOPATH already.
- Added: Project Explorer UI improvements:
- GOROOT entry in now sorted at the top, and has own icon.
- GOPATH entries have a location sub-label.
- GOPATH entry no longer shown if that entry location is the same as the project location.
- gocode handling improvements:
- Added gocode process argument information to gocode log console.
- gocode Code Completion now works with files outside of an Eclipse project.
- Added display of an error dialog when gocode Content Assist fails.
- Set timeout of 5 seconds for gocode process invocation during Content Assist.
- Fixed: Provide correct GOPATH 'lib-path' argument to gocode.
- Removed "RELEASE/DEBUG" config option from launch configuration, since it didn't actually do anything.
- Fixed: bug in Go Project Wizard where using "Create project from existing source" would make the finish button not work.
- Fixed: bug where some items in the Workbench "Source" menu would disappear when switching editors.
▶ Recommended/tested CDT version: 8.4.0
- Changed the Eclipse update site URL to: http://goclipse.github.io/releases/
- Updated minimum required CDT version to 8.4.
- For more info on new CDT debug features, see: https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn84#Debug
- Added Dynamic printf action to Go editor ruler.
- Changed Goclipse to be more lenient with CDT versions: it can now be installed with any CDT version except with major version changes. However each DDT release will still have a preferred CDT "major.minor" version, that has been tested against Goclipse. Using a version other than the recommended one is not guaranteed to work correctly.
- Current recommended CDT version is 8.4.
- Improved syntax highlighting preferences. Can now customize bold, italic, underline, etc. for each syntax element.
- Added build console preference page.
- Can now customize build console text colors, and "Activate console on error messages" option.
- Added #45: Allow specifying extra options to 'go build' (available in project properties). They default to
-gcflags "-N -l" - Added: error message if
gocodeserver could not be started. - Fixed #60: "go fmt" clearing entire file source if Go source was invalid.
- Fixed #68: Ctrl-click hyperlink to open symbol defintion no longer working.
- Fixed: Redundant build messages being displayed, even if no changes occurred in a project since last build.
- Fixed: No build commands are printed in the build console when building non-main packages.
- Added debugging support using CDT's integration with GDB.
- Goclipse now requires a JVM of version 7.
- Changed internal id for Go projects, so old Go projects are no longer recognized, they will need to be recreated.
- Implemented #46: Eclipse console for Go builder.
- Implemented #23: Auto indent when Enter pressed. Closing braces are automatically added as well.
- Also, auto-deindent is performed when backspace pressed at line indent.
- Added preference page to customize Auto-Indent behavior (under Editor/Typing)
- Fixed issue with Project Explorer
Go Elementscontent. - Fixed potential bug reading output of go test tool, for auto test feature.
- Removed deprecated options in Go project build options property page.
- Moved Continuous/Automatic Unit Testing tab to separate property page.
- Fixed bug: Continuous Unit Testing property page saving its options without OK pressed.
- Fixed bug: Continuous Unit Testing property page restore-defaults not working.