Recently a new version of
MPS 2018.2 has been released with many
long-awaited changes . In short, in this release you are waiting for improvements in migration, new generation plans, GitHub-plugin and more. Details below.
Migration notificationsWe have implemented migration notifications to better inform you about what is happening: now you will receive a notification if the project depends on a language that cannot be downloaded for any reason, or if the migration is postponed.
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New aspect of VCSWe have added a new aspect of the VCS language. Now, instead of creating annotations for the concept declaration, an aspect of the language is created. An aspect is generated for a specific runtime code. The VCS aspect replaces the MergeHints annotation, migration is provided.
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GitHub pluginImplemented GitHub plugin. Now you can log in to GitHub as follows: VCS → Checkout from Version Control → Git → Log in to GitHub ...
Generator testsIn addition to the existing family of tests for nodes and the editor, we have implemented a new method for testing generators. The challenge is to confirm that the generator or set of generators really do their job. The IDE supports execution modes both inside and outside the process, as well as execution from MPS Ant build scripts.
Branches in generation plansA new operator appeared in the generation plans: fork with. It forks a sequence of transformations at a given point. The model is transferred to the specified plan in the state in which it was at the branch step, then the transformation is performed as usual. In the example above, the input model is first converted using the crossmodel.entity generator and the state is written, then the crossmodel.property # prop2class generator is used to produce model No. 1. Then the crossmodel.property generator # prop2xml converts the recorded model into the output model # 2. Note that the word “then” here does not indicate a commitment — there is no guarantee that the branches will be processed in any particular order, except that the “main” branch of the original plan will produce the “first and only” output model available through old API (GenerationStatus # getOutputModel) for compatibility / migration.
Branches in generation testsGenerator tests support generation plans with the fork operator and compare all output models with the provided source.

These and other features of MPS 2018.2 are described in more detail on
the What's New page , you can download the new version
here .
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