PTP/planning/4.0

Release Schedule

Info: http://eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=tools.ptp

• Milestone builds:
  • M1 Friday, August 21, 2009
  • M2 Friday, October 2, 2009
  • M3 Friday, November 13, 2009
  • M4 Friday, December 18, 2009
  • M5 Friday, February 5, 2010
  • M6 Friday, March 19, 2010
  • M7 Friday, May 7, 2010
• Release candidate builds:
  • RC1 Friday, May 21, 2010
  • RC2 Friday, May 28, 2010
  • RC3 Friday, June 4, 2010
  • RC4 Friday, June 11, 2010
• Release Wednesday, June 23, 2010

External Tools Framework

• External Tools Feedback view - takes an XML file, presumably generated by an external tool (ETFw supported, or a compiler, or another performance tool, etc. etc. ) and produces an eclipse view with items mapped to source code lines. (Beth Tibbitts)

Helios Support

• PTP will be updated to support Helios (Eclipse 3.6 and CDT 7.0).

Photran

• Photran is now part of PTP and will be available from the same update site.

Parallel Debugger

• The parallel debugger contains a number of bug fixes and API enhancements.

Parallel Language Development Tools

• Bug fixes for MPI and OpenMP tools. (Beth)
• Hope to have new UPC project wizard as well.

Remote Development Tools

• Bug fixes/improvements

Resource Managers

• Support for SLURM
• Support for PBS
• MPICH2 now uses the same RM infrastructure as Open MPI
• RM's can now supply their own UI elements
• RM's use service model for configuration information

Service Configurations

• New service configuration preferences page
• New service configuration project properties page
• Service configuration view
• Service model events
• Import/export service configurations