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RE: [cdt-dev] Rational Ready to Go

Thanks, Sebastien, we are definitely excited about getting more involved.

 

There are probably a few technical discussion threads we need to get started to help us figure out how best to focus our efforts.  However, I think we'll wait until the 1.0 crunch is over before we get those rolling.  In the meantime, if you anyone has any ideas, feel free to let us know.

 

Cheers,

Doug Schaefer

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastien Marineau [mailto:sebastien@xxxxxxx]
Sent:
Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:02 PM
To: 'cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [cdt-dev] Rational Ready to Go

 

This is great news... Welcome to the CDT!

 

Sebastien

-----Original Message-----
From: Schaefer, Doug [mailto:dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:00 PM
To: 'cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [cdt-dev] Rational Ready to Go

First of all, I'd like to extend my congratulations to the CDT 1.0 team for putting together a pretty comprehensive IDE for C/C++ development.  It certainly surpasses my expectations and I've started to use it on some C++ projects I have on the go.  You've certainly set a high standard for development going forward.

 

To that end, I am happy to announce that we at Rational Software are ready to help with contributions to the CDT.  There are two main areas where we think we can help address:

 

·   Automated build.  We would like to provide a mechanism that allows users to work with their C and C++ projects without having to manually create makefiles.  This mechanism must support build tools from many sources and, at the least, support generation of appropriate makefiles.  It should also be extensible to allow other types of build tools (e.g. ant) and potentially an internal build mechanism that calls tools directly.

·   CDOM.  We have some expertise in parser technologies and extensive experience in object models.  We would like to lend this expertise to the development of a complete C/C++ parser and code object model that allows us to reach the same level of functionality as the JDT, especially with code assist, searching, refactoring support, etc.  This is certainly a challenging area that, if we get right, will bring some exciting features to the CDT.

 

We will be pleased to work with the CDT community in development in these areas as well as to help out in others areas where we can.  We will put more detailed proposals out for comment over the next few weeks.  In the meantime, if you have any comments, questions, concerns, please let me know and I. as Rational's technical lead on the CDT, will make sure they are addressed.

 

We are very excited here to be joining the CDT development team and being a part of a project that will certainly change the landscape of the C/C++ development community.

 

Doug Schaefer
Technial Lead

Rational - the software development company
Ottawa (Kanata), Ontario, Canada

 


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