I am pleased to announce the availability of the first "public" milestone of CDT 4.0, M5. CDT 4.0 is going to be a huge release for us and bugzilla is telling me that we already have 265 bugs/enhancements that have been addressed (more than we did in all of CDT 3.1.0 BTW). With all the new committers working on it, it is important that we get these milestones out to the community for feedback and testing.
So feel free to give it a try. Instructions and links are available by following the CDT website, http://www.eclipse.org/cdt. Note that you require Eclipse 3.3 M5 to run it.
Unfortunately, we don't have a New & Noteworthy. But things to look out for include new Views like the Include Browser, Call Hierarchy View, Type Hierarchy View, and improvement in performance for Open Declaration and Content Assist. The managed build internal builder works better by getting dependency info out of the index. There hasn't been much change with debug and the standard builder.
Get on that N&N, people underestimate how important the N&N is in regards to how people perceive progress. I know certain people just wait for that N&N to see what's going on with projects.
ReplyDeleteThe N&N is one of the best thing Eclipse has done for public consumption. I would actually prefer if N&N were posted slightly in advance to get people drooling :)
Go CDT team! I am personally waiting to try out the Windows debugger (looked at the code and mailing list a little bit, but figured I'd wait until it showed up in the New and Noteworthy). We use Visual Studio 2005 at the moment, which is actually quite good, but I would really love to customize Eclipse/CDT for our particular environment. Whenever, I see these enhancements that get it closer to the excellent JDT, it's hard to resist! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteOh neat, I just found a cvs log page that says right where Windows debugging is at for M5: http://cdt.eclipse.org/cvslog/HEAD/index.html
ReplyDeleteWow, how's that for transparency? Way cool.
I've started working on the Windows debugger integration again. It's not there in M5, but hopefully I'll have something usable by M6.
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ReplyDeleteI just downloaded cdt 4.0 M7 release. I could see anything special there for debugging binaries generated with the Visual Studio C++ compiler. Is this integration done or is it still in progress ? I find the CDT plugin great but we have a huge project that uses the Visual Studio compiler and changing that to gcc is not an option at the moment so it would be great to see the CDT be able to debug these binaries and it would make the decision to shift over to the Eclipse IDE much more easier for us :-)
The Windows debugger support has been delayed. I've had to focus on our MinGW integration support instead. The MinGW gdb debugger has a bunch of issues that will hopefully help me with the Windows debugger support.
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