Re: [cdt-dev] What happened to the Dom Ast View

[Sergey Prigogin <eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:55 PM, David Glaser <dglaser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sergey,

 

You said

 

“Your use case is not representative of a regular CDT user. You can get the org.eclipse.cdt.ui.tests plugin from CDT git repository.”

 

Out of curiosity, what are the expected use cases of people who make use of the CDT SDK.   I had thought that CDT SDK would be used for developing language sensitive editors, refactoring tools, code analysis tools, etc.  All of these tools look at the parsed representation of the C++ code – the AST DOM tree and us tool developers would like to examine the DOM tree to make sure we understand the structure for a particular C++ construct.

By Eclipse convention SDK is just the run-time plus the source code. It means that any functionality included in SDK will also appear in non-SDK CDT installations. Regular CDT users programming in C++ are not interested in the AST DOM view.

 

-David

-sergey 

 

 

From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sergey Prigogin
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:41 PM

To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] What happened to the Dom Ast View

 

 

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:36 PM, David Glaser <dglaser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, it turns out that the DOM AST Viewer is of great use for those who are writing code that traverses the AST.

I use it when I'm debugging my C++ reverse engineering tool that we use in-house.

So, I ask that you folks include it in the SDK distribution.  After all, the SDK is to be used by C++ tool developers.

 

Your use case is not representative of a regular CDT user. You can get the org.eclipse.cdt.ui.tests plugin from CDT git repository.

-David

 

-sergey 

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