CDT/Archive/planning/5.0

CDT 5.0

• Finish end of June 08
• Two month Feature Freeze to End Ramp Down
  • End of April
• Line up with Ganymede milestones
  • +0 +1 +2
  • 1 week after the platform milestone
  • Start with M3 – Nov 7th.
• Upgrade to Java VM 1.5
  • What to do with the generics warning when we do that

Plan Items

• EFS Support (Greg & Doug)
  • Get rid of NPEs
  • Fix up an Platform
• Virtual EFS (Doug)
  • Visual Studio like Add File/Exclude File
• Watchpoint Support (John)
• Executables View (Ken)
• Visual Studio Key Bindings (Ken)
• CDT Debug UI agnostic of Debug Model (Pawel & Mikhail)
• Disassembly View/Editor (Mikhail & Toni)
• DSF Integration (Pawel)
• Packaging (Doug)
  • Putting the gnu toolchain support in a separate feature
  • CDI in a separate feature
  • How to set up feature dependencies/composition
  • LPG source package
• Autotools integration (Jeff)
  • Still to evaluate whether it makes sense in CDT or external
• Mark Occurrences (Toni)
• Macro Expansion Hover (Toni)
• Outline View for Assembler (Toni)
• Code Formatter (Toni) - maybe
• Code Completion (Markus)
  • Includes
  • Proposal Elevance
  • Honor visibility
  • STL Templates
• Code Templates (Markus)
  • New Class Wizard
  • Others
• Structure Compare move to DOM parser (Markus)
  • Remove old parser
• Macro Expansion View (Markus)
• Open Element (Markus)
  • Add Macros
  • Working Set Support – maybe
• Type Hierarchy (Markus)
  • Show Visibility – maybe
• Call Hierarchy (Markus)
  • Show polymorphic method calls
  • Show read/write access
• Split DOMScanner into Lexer and Preprocessor (Markus)
• AST Location rework (Markus)
• Indexer Improvements (Markus)
  • Strings compression
  • Proper handling of C Linkage
  • Namespace composition
  • Improve incremental re-index calculation heuristics
  • Decorator to show indexed files – maybe
• xlC Compiler support for scanner discovery (Chris)
• Remote indexing/remote services (Chris)
  • Remote standard make
• Scalability (Chris)
  • Large number of projects, files, LOC
  • Disable features for large stuff
  • Scope features to smaller areas
  • Optimizing to parsing/indexing
• Parsers (Chris)
  • Gnu C Parser on top of C99
  • ISO C++ Parser, GNU C++ Parser
• Class Browser View (Chris)
• Refactoring (hsc - Chris)
  • http://r2.ifs.hsr.ch/cdtrefactoring
• Multi-config edit (Mikhail S)
• CHelpProvider using XML based contributions (Mikhail S)
• MBS UI enhancements (Mikhail S)
• Toolchain modification enhancements (Mikhail S)
• Toolchain information in the CModel (Doug & Mikhail S)
• Scanner discovery (Doug & Mikhail S & Chris)
• API Management (Doug)
  • Process
  • Making internal – internal
• Bugzilla backlog (Doug)
  • Components