Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling) 9.4.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
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Project
Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling)
Release

9.4.0

Description

CDT 9.4 introduces more work with the Core Build system, progress with C++ language support, and general clean up in debug and the build console.

API Certification

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Architectural Issues

The Core Build System is progressing nicely. We upgrade the CMake integration to Preview. Experimental support for Autotools and Makefile projects have been added. Also added is the ability for Users to play a manual role in toolchain selection including manually adding in new toolchains. This was shown at EclipseCon with support added for WebAssembly without writing a plug-in.

As Core Build matures, and with Managed Build largely unmaintained, we have started planning for Managed Build's deprecation. Integrators adding in new build integrations should look at Core Build.

Security Issues

None.

Non-Code Aspects

User Documentation is old and unmaintained. Work is needed to document the new UI for Core Build and Debug.

We containue to ensure strings are externalized to enable internationalization.

Blogging about the new features in CDT Core Build will be done on Doug Schaefer's blog, cdtdoug.ca. KitchwaCoders have been blogging about debug.

Conforms To UI/UX Guidelines
Not verified
Usability Details

The Launch Bar and Core Build continues to be the focus for user experience improvements around build and launch. The Lauch Bar enables automatic creation of launch configurations and Core Build enables automatic creation of build configurations. Editing of build and launch settings is currently done with the configuration (middle drop down) edit (the gear) dialog.

Work continues on improving Build Console performance to improve usability when large numbers of build messages are produced during a build.

End of Life

Nothing is added to the End of Life list for this release. Be aware that we are looking at deprecating Managed Build in a future release.

Standards

Work continues on supporting the latest C and C++ standards with work this release supporting C++14 and some of the new C++17.

Communities

Our mailing list, cdt-dev, continues to be the main communication channel.

The forum is quite active with questions from users. Our response from the committer communty has improved lately with both Jonah and Doug contributing help.

Doug and Jonah and Tracy continue to blog about CDT in their respective blogs.

An embedded tools summit was held at EclipseCon along with an number of talks from CDT committers.

Submitted by Arun Ganiger on Tue, 01/02/2018 - 04:07

When  cdt-9.4.zip will be avialable for download  in Archived p2 repos to install into an existing Eclipse using the "Install New Software..." . This supposed to relesed on 20th Decmeber 2017.