| [cdt-dev] Debug API Proposals |
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Hi,
Based on the discussions at the EclipseCon and
various conference calls we are proposing the following changes in the CDT
Debug API.
1. Make the CDT extension of the platform Debug API
"public".
The API is designed to support the CDT debugger UI.
The language independent part of UI (and the
corresponding API) has been gradually covered by the
platform - Registers view, Memory view, Source Lookup framework,
etc. Some of the current CDT UI components -
Disassembly and Modules view, as well as some language-independent
actions can be contributed to the platform in the future.
The API has always been located in the "public"
packages - org.eclipse.cdt.debug.core,
org.eclipse.cdt.debug.core.model and org.eclipse.cdt.debug.core.sourcelookup,
but has never been "advertised". If the community expresses an interest in
these proposals, we need to clean it up and provide the complete java docs for
it.
2. If the API is approved by the community,
the next steps would be
a. refactoring of the C/C++-specific
parts
b. extraction of the public abstract
(CDI-independent) implementations of the debug model
elements.
3. The current implementation of the proposed
API is based on CDI, so the CDI interface is supported and we are
planning to support and enhance it in the future.
Comments, suggestions?
Mikhail
Khodjaiants |