[cdt-dev] searching for a Binary's files

[John Cortell <rat042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a heads up on something I'm working on. I'll eventually open a
bugzilla report with this description and the solution. This is just an
early heads-up.

When a Binary object appears in a view, it exposes the source files that
were used to produce the executable.

The user can double click on the file element and Eclipse should open the
file in the editor. If the file is locally not where the debug
information says the file is, finding it requires accessing the source
locator API, which is in platform debug. The core plugin currently has no
dependency on platform debug and it's probably best for us to keep it
that way.

Additionally, we should centralize the logic to search for a binary's
files. Currently the CDT debug component has search logic, the
Executables view has its own, and now the core plugin would have a third.
We really need to centralize the search logic so when we need to find a
file, we have consistent behavior across features without code
duplication.

To this end, I am working on a mechanism by which any component can
search for a Binary's file on the local machine via logic that is
accessible from a Binary object via the adapter mechanism. This will
serve to (a) have a single piece of logic to do the searching, and (b)
let the logic live in the CDT debug plugin yet be used from
any CDT plugin.