[cdt-dev] CDT and Configurations

[Phillip Shoemaker <pshoemaker@xxxxxxx>]

I've been looking at using Eclipse for some C/C++ development, but 
found that the absence of "configurations" has me deeply troubled. 
Although the whole concept of configurations might not be significant 
in Java development, it is absolutely CRUCIAL in C/C++ development. How 
many development projects have you worked on where you were NOT able to 
easily change between debug and release modes?

Visual Studio, C++ Builder, and Metrowerks all give you the ability to 
easily change between a debug and release mode, and even allow you to 
create additional configurations. It seems as though Eclipse put the 
configuration management one level up, allowing you to create different 
RUN and DEBUG configurations, rather than putting it a bit lower to 
have you work within a configuration.

If this topic has been covered before, please excuse me. I've searched 
this list, and read all of the CDT 1.2 and 2.0 (what little there is) 
project plans to figure out if this is going to be addressed any time 
soon. But, unfortunately, it isn't even covered.

So, any thoughts?

Thanks.

Phillip