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From: Schaefer, Doug
[mailto:dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002
12:00 PM
To: 'cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [cdt-dev] Rational Ready
to Go
First of all, I'd like to extend my
congratulations to the CDT 1.0 team for putting together a pretty comprehensive
IDE for C/C++ development. It certainly surpasses my expectations and
I've started to use it on some C++ projects I have on the go. You've
certainly set a high standard for development going forward.
To that end, I am happy to announce
that we at Rational Software are ready to help with contributions to the
CDT. There are two main areas where we think we can help address:
·
Automated build. We would like to provide a
mechanism that allows users to work with their C and C++ projects without
having to manually create makefiles. This mechanism must support build
tools from many sources and, at the least, support generation of appropriate
makefiles. It should also be extensible to allow other types of build
tools (e.g. ant) and potentially an internal build mechanism that calls tools
directly.
·
CDOM. We have some expertise in parser
technologies and extensive experience in object models. We would like to
lend this expertise to the development of a complete C/C++ parser and code
object model that allows us to reach the same level of functionality as the
JDT, especially with code assist, searching, refactoring support, etc.
This is certainly a challenging area that, if we get right, will bring some
exciting features to the CDT.
We will be pleased to work with the
CDT community in development in these areas as well as to help out in others
areas where we can. We will put more detailed proposals out for comment
over the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you have any comments,
questions, concerns, please let me know and I. as Rational's technical lead on
the CDT, will make sure they are addressed.
We are very excited here to be
joining the CDT development team and being a part of a project that will certainly
change the landscape of the C/C++ development community.
Doug Schaefer
Technial
Lead
Rational - the
software development company
Ottawa (Kanata), Ontario, Canada
