CDT/calls/Dec2016

December 6th, 2016

Attendees

1. Alvaro Sanchez-Leon (Ericsson)
2. Marc-Andre Laperle (Ericsson)
3. Marc Dumais (Ericsson)
4. Jonah Graham (Kichwa Coders)
5. Tim Orling (Intel)
6. Mikhail Khodjaiants (Mentor)
7. Doug Schaefer (QNX)
8. Jeff Johnston (RedHat)
9. Marc Khouzam (Ericsson)

Minutes

• Will do next call on January 10th
• CDT 9.2 RC4 available. Final release December 21st with Neon.2
• Neon.3 in March with CDT 9.2.1
• CDT 9.3/Oxygen in June 2017
  • Can use Oxygen APIs on CDT master branch
  • Update target file to Oxygen. Doug will notify the list first.
• Auto-generation of source features
  • Change being attempted. Hoping to post patch soon.
  • Will remove all feature-source plugins and have them generated automatically by tycho for all of CDT
  • Step in simplifying releng maintenance
• Linker script editor
  • Stable version aimed by end of year
  • Will have its own feature
  • Using XText (will bring new dependencies)
  • Aimed for CDT 9.3/Oxygen as a preview release.
  • Demo at next CDT call
• Full GDB Console
  • Ready for 9.2 release, for Linux with both non-stop and all-stop
  • Errors are not shown on new CLI. Those errors may be coming on MI. To be investigated
• CDT Datasheet was updated to include refactoring section https://wiki.eclipse.org/images/0/09/CDT_Datasheet.pdf
  • Will add datasheet to product page
• Doug presented the CDT at Embedded Software Engeneering conference in Germany
  • Most attendees were Eclipse users
  • Lots of tools on display there, silicon vendors, many showing products based on Eclipse but not saying it is Eclipse
• Marc and Marc-Andre were at Embedded Scandanavia conference
  • Also many vendors showing tools based on CDT
  • Marc presented Debug to a full room.
• Course at University of Toronto uses CDT to teach
  • Jeff can put us in contact to get some input from new users