[cdt-dev] CDT core plan

[Sebastien Marineau <sebastien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

here's the draft plan for the CDT core and UI components.
The plan is split into 3 major "releases", which align
with the debugger/launcher plan. The first is in 
october, as the first, working prototype implementation, the
second is targetted for march 2003, and the third for august 2003.

** October 2002 **

The focus is on cleaning up the QNX CDT code and doing all
of the 2.0 catchup items, as well as adding features to 
support the modularity and overridability of the CDT components.



** March 2003 **

Based on the experience and feedback gathered with the october 
release, we will finalize the public interfaces for the parser,
indexer and C model. This is also the target for adding code
formatting support, as well as a prototype of the CDOM.


** August 2003 **

Feature set for this will be determined by the feedback and direction
that the CDT takes.



** Detailed work items for October 2002 **

CDT Core

Supported platforms:
-	Linux w/gdb 5.2.1
-	QNX w/gdb 5.2.1
-	Maybe windows with cygwin and gdb 5.2.1 (need someone to take
ownership)


C component manager
- manages the selection of which components to use for a project.
- allows overriding the default CDT implementation (e.g. replace the
builder)

2.0 catchup items
- clean up extension points
- bring editor to 2.0 GA level
- bring menu handling to 2.0 level
- clean up deprecated function warnings

Provide prototype versions of CDT API's
- C model
- Indexer interface
- Parser interface
- Help integration interface

Prototype version of builder (simple builder model)

Improve indexer 
- bound amount of memory used
- save indexing info to file for persistence

Project conversion wizards
- convert from generic to C/C++ project
- convert from C to C++

Additional preferences
- component arguments/settings
- formatting preferences

The last two items are currently unassigned and will probably
not get done:

C search page
Class browser


As well, we are lacking user documentation, due to resourcing 
constraints.

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Please review and comment on the plan. Also remember that if there's some 
feature that you'd like to see added, you help would be very welcome!

The CDT core team