PDT Project Plan for 2.0 Release

Last revised: 12/31/2007

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This document lays out the feature and API set for the next release of the PDT project, release 2.0.

Release Deliverables
Release Milestones
Features and Work Plan
Target Operating Environments

PDT 2.0 is planned to be released on December 2008. The project will continue to be based on Eclipse Ganymede releases .

Release Deliverables

The release deliverables are:

Source code release for PDT is available in the eclipse.org CVS repositories and the download page.
PDT runtime binaries and SDK distributions are available in the download page.
PDT runtime binaries and SDK features are available via eclipse.org update site (Click here for additional information).

Release Milestones

PDT builds are available weekly as Integration builds. PDT Milestone Releases are approximately every six weeks of integration builds.

Following the final milestone, release candidates will begin. There should be at least two release candidates before the actual release. Scheduled release candidates should end one week before the release.

2.0 M1 - November 03

2.0 RC1 - November 17

2.0 RC2 - December 01

2.0 Release - December 29

Features and Work Plan

Milestone 1:

PHP Model Infrastructure

Mark Occurrences

Type Hierarchy View

Override Method Annotation

New PHP Explorer capabilities

Extended Open Type

Code Templates

Code Assist for Dynamic Variables

Release Candidate 1+2:

Bug Squash (List of bugs can be found here)

* Note: PHP 5.3 is expected to be released around October-November

Target Operating Environments

PDT 2.0 will support all operating environments supported by the Eclipse Platform itself. For a list of supported environments, refer to Eclipse Project for a list of reference platforms.