RE: [cdt-dev] Convert To a C or C++ Project

[Judy Green <jgreen@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evoy, Sean [mailto:sevoy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: 'cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [cdt-dev] Convert To a C or C++ Project
> 
> 
> Hi Judy and Doug,
> Certainly in terms of the builder, a case could be made for a 
> conversion
> wizard. Even thinking about converting between a Standard 
> Make project (like
> the current default) and a Managed Make project, one can 
> imagine the data
> that a team lead or individual developer would have to 
> manually enter as
> part of the conversion; LIB and INCLUDE paths, compiler and linker
> directives, custom steps, etc. An ISV may or may not want to support
> converting existing CDT projects to their own builder system, 
> but having an
> example conversion wizard might help them come up with a solution for
> support their users with existing projects using their tools, 
> or evaluating
> whether our default builder/build model is sufficient for them. Just a
> thought,

I agree...
In fact at QNX we build upon the superclass of the CDT conversion wizard.
It may not be totally Eclipse centric, but the design allowed me to

1.) add additional options to the main conversion page (type of QNX C/C++
projects) 
2.) provide a single method to determine which projects are eligible for
conversion 
3.) provide a single method to perform the conversion
4.) the options is still available to add additional pages to the conversion
wizards as well
	(perhaps in future ... build information)

-Judy

> 
> Sean Evoy
> Senior Software Engineer
> Rational Software
> 
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