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Re: [cdt-dev] 3.8 vs. 4.2

We don't have concrete plans for the next release. My hope as I mentioned
is to keep it at 8.2. That's independent of whether it's on 4.x or
continues to support 3.x.

Frankly, I don't see any new big features or rewrite coming to CDT unless
someone has a surprise. So I don't anticipate us adopting 4.x only
features.

But the future is very cloudy at the moment and I'm waiting to see how
things unfold. I am very concerned about the resource profile for the
Eclipse Platform for one stream, let alone two...

Doug.

On 12-07-05 3:18 PM, "Warren Paul" <Warren.Paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thanks Eugene.  Good info.
>
>Anyone else have any feedback on 4.2?  Any plans to use it, or other
>reasons not to?
>
>Doug, can you give a little more detail on this comment from the CDT call
>notes?  "Some debate on 4.x versus 3.x. CDT 8.1 Juno works with both. Not
>sure we have any choice in Kepler but to adopt 4.x. Which means those
>issues people are finding will need to be raised as bugs and fixed."
>
>Does that mean next summer we'll have a CDT 9.0 that only works with 4.x?
> I assume maintenance could be performed on 8.x branch and stay
>compatible with 3.x, but if there really isn't going to be a 3.9...
>
>Thanks,
>Warren
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Eugene Ostroukhov
>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:27 AM
>To: CDT General developers list.
>Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] 3.8 vs. 4.2
>
>I used 4.2 RC as my primary environment for weeks - and once I moved
>to 3.8 it was such a relief. I would recommend other teams use 4.2 for
>some time before making the decision - I used it to develop 3.7.x
>product and it worked well, I used the same workspace for Eclipse
>3.7.2, 4.2 and 3.8 and found no issues - so it is really simple to
>give 4.2 a try.
>
>In our team, I am advocating against a move to Eclipse4 for our
>project (we make a CDT-based IDE for Linux and Mac developers).
>
>Our product main target platform is Linux and Eclipse4 is outright
>ugly there (even the classic theme has odd colors here and there). I
>also see many problems with fast view management (e.g. dragging a fast
>view is glitchy, shortcuts are reshuffled after the restart, etc) - so
>I'm really concerned with the basic functionality being that broken
>after years of development. E4 also seems to be perceivably slower (at
>least on Ubuntu). Oh, and I'm really not sold on all the new features
>(our project does not need custom styling and we rely heavily on CDT
>and Eclipse Platform features that are the same in 3.8 and 4.2)
>
>Eclipse 3.8 is really great. As Apple would say "Best Eclipse version
>released so far".
>
>On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Warren Paul <Warren.Paul@xxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> There was a thread a while back on this list discussing whether IDE
>>vendors
>> were migrating their products to 3.8 or 4.2.  I looked back in the
>>archives
>> several months but could find it.  With Juno now released, we¹re trying
>>to
>> decide which platform we should base our next release on.  4.2 makes me
>> nervous simply because I¹ve seen random comments here and there about
>>how
>> unstable the compatibility layer is.  Is anyone not planning to move to
>>4.2,
>> and if not, why?
>>
>>
>>
>> I also saw something in a CDT meeting summary about whether CDT should
>>move
>> to the new 4.x API¹s rather than using the compatibility layer.  Was
>>there a
>> decision made?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Warren
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