[cdt-dev] List of deprecated bugs

[kesselhaus <kesselhaus@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Doug,

Shish, that has been a very long list of bugs/requests you marked 
deprecated, reports of ~7years of testing from the users side.
Some of them I don't even remember, or at least thought of being already 
closed.
Well, they have been even going back to version 1.x of CDT. I remember 
now my first encounter with Eclipse and CDT in
5th or 6th semester at University, and I still use Eclipse mainly for 
C/C++ development. In on PR I pasted a C++ snippest
of my OS layer, and now, ~7years later I still use it at work to write 
and handle my embedded systems code.  And even if
there are still other solutions around like others prefer vim, emacs or 
e.g. SlickEdit, I still find features the others don't have.
Like the highlighting of inactive code, the syntax coloring based on AST 
information, the evolving project management, the
setup of  Paths&Symbols together with some project specific variables... 
(ever worked on a #ifdef contaminated code base? ;/ )
Well, yes, there are still some annoying things around, but hey, I still 
live on the cutting edge of CDT mostly.
Now, I encounter also how many companies switch over to and/or integrate 
with Eclipse+CDT too (e.g. Cantata, WindRiver,
Rhapsody...) and I also see the community growing. So I just wanted to 
say thanks for the years of discovering a new build,
finding new features and seeing CDT grow up, and I hope, there will be 
more years of evolution be coming.
Keep up the good work, get rid of that deprecated PRs and good luck on 
fewer bugs and more feature PRs. ;)

Henning,
a.k.a. kesselhaus