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Bug 365279

Summary:	[xtext] Consider making language inheritance easier
Product:	[Modeling] TMF	Reporter:	Jan Koehnlein <jan>
Component:	Xtext	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tmf.xtext-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Jan Koehnlein

2011-12-01 03:35:45 EST

To inherit from another language with default settings you currently have to

1) make a dependency to the base language's RT/UI plugin respectively
2) register the generated EPackage and genmodel in the workflow
3) change the with clause in the grammar

i.e. you have to have a deeper understanding of plug-in dependency management and EMF (generated package, genmodel and platform URIs). It is also likely you'll have to additionally export some packages form hte base language. If you stick to the defaults, you probably won't need that knowledge again.

We should at least document the steps to inherit from a super language. To capture some more none PDE/EMF expert users, it would be nice to have another input field for the super language in the "New Xtext project" wizard. Opinions?