RE: [dsdp-dd-dev] DD 1.1 Release "New & Noteworthy"

["Marc Khouzam" <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
 
I've gone through the N&N is detail and it was actually a very interesting read.
I've made various wording changes and minor informational changes and committed.  
You can see the exact changes from the CVS history.
I've also added the Multi-Process Debugging section.
 
I had one question, after reading the line:
"Most DSF features are targeted towards the developers of debugger integrations..."
I wondered if we shouldn't also add to the N&N items are not UI relevant, but still new to DSF.  For instance, in 1.1, when using a Sequence, it is now possible 
to control the progress monitor directly from an individual step; this may be interesting to a developper using DSF.
 
Marc


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	From: dsdp-dd-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dsdp-dd-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pawel Piech
	Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:25 PM
	To: Device Debugging developer discussions
	Subject: Re: [dsdp-dd-dev] DD 1.1 Release "New & Noteworthy"
	
	
	Yes, that would be ideal.  Since it's a prominent feature of the project plan, I think we owe it to ourselves to explain what it means :-)  BTW, we should probably plan a service release (1.1.1) for after GDB 7 comes out to make that non-stop and multi-process work as advertised (i.e. to adject for any last minute protocol changes).
	
	Marc Khouzam wrote: 

		Hi,
		 
		the current support of GDB for multi-process (in HEAD) is for targets where all processes share a single address space.  Since this is not the case
		for Linux, multi-process does not work for Linux yet.  GDB should have this support by the end of the year or soon after though.
		 
		I can put the status and screenshots for multi-process in the N&N and I'll put an clear note that it currently requires a specific type of target.
		 
		Marc
		 
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		From: dsdp-dd-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dsdp-dd-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pawel Piech
		Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:26 PM
		To: Device Debugging developer discussions
		Subject: Re: [dsdp-dd-dev] DD 1.1 Release "New & Noteworthy"
		
		

			Hi Marc,
			
			One section that I did not cover is Multi-Process debugging with GDB.  I wasn't sure what was the current level of support in GDB for this and I had no way of taking any screen-shots.  Also, I got some feedback from Martin O., who is using this doc in a  DSDP overview presentation at Eclipse Summit Europe, that the "Connect" action seemed confusing.  If I remember correctly , the Connect aciton was added specifically to enable mult-process debugging, so having this section would be helpful there as well.  Would you be able at some point to add this section to the N&N?
			
			Cheers,
			Pawel
			
			Marc Khouzam wrote: 

				Hi Pawel,
				 
				this is really nice work!  I think it will make promoting DSF-GDB much easier.  I really like all the screen shots.
				I haven't gone through it all yet, but I wanted to point out that I see weird formatting:
				1- on Internet Explorer, the Smooth Stepping section is cramped into a 2-word column
				2- on both IE and firefox, the line wrap-aroud seems to be for a wide screen and enables a horizontal scrollbar for me
				instead of fitting on my square screen.
				 
				I'll will read through it more thoroughly, tomorrow.
				 
				Again, great work!
				 
				marc
				 
				
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				From: dsdp-dd-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Pawel Piech
				Sent: Mon 11/10/2008 5:12 PM
				To: Device Debugging developer discussions
				Subject: [dsdp-dd-dev] DD 1.1 Release "New & Noteworthy"
				
				
				
				Hi All,
				I finally got around to what I should have done months ago: put together
				a New and Noteworthy page for DD
				(http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/dd/development/relnotes/dd_news-1.1.html). 
				This was an unusually big task since we haven't had a N&N before and I
				essentially had to do full overview of all the features in DD.  I
				covered DSF and GDB in good detail.  However, I don't really have enough
				knowledge of the Traditional Memory Rendering and IP-XACT editor, so I
				just l added a heading with one screen cap for them.  Ted and Anthony,
				if you have the time and motivation, it would be very helpful if you
				could fill those sections in.
				
				The main motivation is of course to give users a quick glance of all the
				cool features that we've been working.  And the theory is that once we
				have this initial overview in place, it will be easy to add incremental
				updates in future releases.  Please write back with feedback and feel
				free to edit this document directly (in CVS) with updates and fixes.
				
				Cheers,
				Pawel
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