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RE: [cdt-dev] Developer reference material
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Hi, I'm wondering if there is reference API documentation for developers
of IDE products that will include CDT?
There seems to be a grand total of exactly one such document on the CDT
site, and it only discusses one recent optional piece, Managed Build. I've
also seen the table of "feature specs" and "design specs", of course.
Some documents one can stumble over in the cvs tree that seem to be
important, like
This
is likely an oversight and as you run across documents which aren't linked to
the website, please let us
know
about them. There are several outstanding documents and several "empty"
documents which should
be
added/removed respectively.
I've generated javadoc with a command line script, since 3.0M7
throws an IOException when I try File | Export | Javadoc on CDT
checkouts.
Is there a canonical way of generating CDT javadoc? An existing
publication of it?
No
publication of one, but it should be relatively straightforward. Most of
the current developers are actually
using
the source as the documentation and the API's and JavaDoc components are still
being added piecemeal
as
areas are receiving focus. Again, if you would like to do a quick write-up
of "what works for you" to generate
the
CDT javadoc, I don't think that there will be any opposition to posting
it.
Is there a list of the extension points with a little bit of
discussion?
Unfortunately, the early CDT was written without all of the nice schema
components which the PDE offers and as
such
some of the extension points are a bit "mystical". This should not be true
of the newer extension points which
have
been added and they should have documentation as part of the schema.
Again, feel free to highlight and/or
submit
patches to address these shortcomings.
I gather that most IDE's shipping CDT as a component ship a modified
version. Is this true? Does QNX ship a modified version or do they actually
add their support via the existing extension points?
Do developers at QNX use the same documentation that I'm searching for?
(It's hard to know exactly how to phrase this question, since I clearly
haven't found "the documentation", but YKWIM.)
I can
only speak for QNX in this matter and not other companies. We ship a
totally stock CDT at what-ever latest
stable
version we are targetting (ie version < 1.0, 1.0, 1.2.1). All of the
"customization" which has been done to
provide a QNX centric development environment has been done as extensions
to components (ie the debugger,
specific flavours of build system, completion/hover help)
or contributions (ie editor commands). The
contributions
almost
always get rolled into the next version if they are of general
interest.
Please help! Going back to reading source code...
The
source code is currently (at least until 2.0) the definitive area for
learning. This is true even of Eclipse.
Hope
this helps,
Thomas
