Stable Scala 2.8 Plugin

Question

Does anyone know if there is a stable version of Scala plugin for eclipse that works with Scala 2.8 (any version of Scala 2.8 ... RC or beta or something else).

I like the fact that it compiles 10 times faster than the netbeans plugin, but it is very unstable and auto-import does not work. Also, sometimes it cannot find classes, when I click run, then I need to clear it again. This is with some random nightly build of the 2.8 eclipse Scala plugin.

Is there a stable version? If so, can you connect me with him?

Thanks in advance:)

Answer 1

The main website for the Scala Eclipse plugin is now at www.scala-ide.org

You can try the plugin for 2.8.0 RC2 with this update the site p2
(not visible: copy http://www.scala-lang.org/archives/downloads/distrib/files/scala-plugin-rc/ )

As for the really stable version, this plugin is not yet available, but as Miles Sabin once told me (September 2009): "We look forward to your contributions."
And he was pretty quick about that too ;) But it was enough to convince my hierarchy that it was too early to invest in Scala in time: there was too much eclipse user base in our department, and no real Scala support / documentation at that time on eclipse.
In fairness, the contribution and documentation of developers is now much richer than it once was.

Answer 2

I have been using it since the release and found 2.8.0 RC2 (link provided by VonC) to be pretty stable (of course, much more than 2.7.7).

Answer 3

I used eclipse 3.5.2 with the 2.8.0 RC2 plugin, which created a lot of compilation problems. I had to disable the plugin and still problems will remain. Only after several attempts to clean / build / delete / re-import the project and restart eclipse were the problems resolved ...