CDT/Archive/planning/6.0

Note: The contents of this page refer to planning documents of past Eclipse CDT releases. See CDT/planning for current information.

Debug

• • DSF
    • [done] Towards DSF/GDB feature parity with CDI/GDB
    • Clean integration into CDT coexisting with CDI
      • [in progress] Actions
      • [done] Launch
  • [omitted] Disassembly Editor
  • [done] Memory Rendering
  • Launch Wizard
  • TCF Debug
  • [omitted] Variable View detail formatter 237960.

Build

• Project Model/CModel
  • Extend the CModel to model build systems and build configurations
    • Provide extension mechanism for build systems to plug in
  • Eliminate the managed build somewhat-based project model
  • Hook up Configuration UI to these configurations
  • Allow for extensibility of Build settings UI to all build systems
• Scanner Discovery
  • Rearchitect scanner discovery to remove gnu-isms, make it easier to extend, make it easier to understand
  • Fix storage of discovery info to make smaller
  • Create service API to simplify use of scanner discover by other build systems
  • Separate out compiler built-ins service
• Managed Build
  • Enhance extensibility by allowing complete build definition in Java
  • Make it easy to extend tool chains with other, unrelated tools (like parser generators)
  • Fix storage to make smaller
• Makefiles
  • Separate out management of Makefile
  • Editor
  • Pave way for Makefile parsing

Indexing/Parsing

• • Better Language Variant Support
  • Inactive code support (outline view)
  • C++0x planning
  • New New Parser
  • Indexer Heuristics for resolving includes

Editor

• • Rename in File

Bug fixing/improvements

• • Name Resolution
    • Templates, Implicit conversions/constructor, operator overloading
  • Refactoring