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Re: [cdt-dev] CDT and Configurations
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> I've been looking at using Eclipse for some C/C++ development, but
> found that the absence of "configurations" has me deeply troubled.
> Although the whole concept of configurations might not be significant
> in Java development, it is absolutely CRUCIAL in C/C++ development. How
> many development projects have you worked on where you were NOT able to
> easily change between debug and release modes?
>
> Visual Studio, C++ Builder, and Metrowerks all give you the ability to
> easily change between a debug and release mode, and even allow you to
> create additional configurations. It seems as though Eclipse put the
> configuration management one level up, allowing you to create different
> RUN and DEBUG configurations, rather than putting it a bit lower to
> have you work within a configuration.
>
> If this topic has been covered before, please excuse me. I've searched
> this list, and read all of the CDT 1.2 and 2.0 (what little there is)
> project plans to figure out if this is going to be addressed any time
> soon. But, unfortunately, it isn't even covered.
>
> So, any thoughts?
>
The managedbuilder seems to go the direction you are describing.
It has as Release/Debug configuration.
Work is on going by some nice folks at IBM/Rationale on this.
