Re: [cdt-dev] CDT from the user's perspective

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

It is interesting you have found this mailing list. I
guess then you may have also seen the recent postings
as we attempt to finalize the CDT 3.0 release which
will support Eclipse 3.1. You should see the link to
the CDT 3.0 build site from the main page
www.eclipse.org/cdt. We do not have the update site up
and running yet for this release since we haven't
finished it yet.

As for user help that you seek, the Eclipse newsgroups
are running well. The eclipse.tools.cdt newsgoup is
one of the busiest on eclipse.org. Point your news
reader at news.eclipse.org. Once we finally wrap up
from the busy CDT 3.0 development we'll take a look
and fix up the web site to be more useful.

Thanks for your feedback.
Doug


--- Kevin Stokes <dadawan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not writing here to get help, but...
> 
> Installed Eclipse on a number of systems and never
> had any trouble as far as 
> Java. But I've wasted maybe 5 hours trying to get a
> version of CDT installed 
> on my Windows box which has Eclipse 3.1. I'm giving
> up, but I think if you 
> guys had added just a couple sentences to your
> website it would save people 
> who want to use your stuff a lot of frustration.
> 
> The FAQ says nothing about Eclipse 3.1, nor anyting
> about how to install CDT 
> manually since the Update Manager method doesn't
> work.
> 
> The link to the web archive of the user group is
> broken. There is no CDT 
> help forum for users that I could find.
> 
> So the Eclipse Update Manager can't find the right
> CDT. ok.
> So CDT web page directs me to a page with a bunch of
> links with different 
> builds. These have long names with no descriptions.
> I guess it doesn't 
> matter.
> There is no .eclipseextension file in the .zip, so
> Eclipse won't install the 
> plugin from my unpacked .zip. So I copy the contents
> of Features to my 
> eclipse Features folder, and so on for the Plugins
> folder. Still, there 
> seems to be no way to Eclipse to recognize the 3.0.0
> version of CDT. I did 
> find one posting on a website where somebody had the
> same problem. They said 
> to use the Update Manager button which unhides the
> disabled features. Still 
> no luck for me.
> 
> No need to reply to this, I know this is the
> developer list. I'm going to 
> uninstall Eclipse 3.1 and try to find an Eclipse
> version with has a CDT I 
> can actually install and run. 
> 
> Thanks for your time, -Kevin Stokes
> 
>
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> >From The Website:
> 
> Also, the CDT 2.x builds will not work with Eclipse
> 3.1. For new CDT
> 3.0builds that will work with Eclipse
> 3.1, please visit our weekly build
> site<http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/builds>.
> <--- However there is no info on which one to pick,
> or how to install it.
>  
> For more information see http://www.eclipse.org/cdt.
>  
> There are two ways to install the CDT: this update
> site, or the 
> old-fashioned way using zip files.
>  
> (Then there is a section explaining how to update
> from the update site, and 
> a section on the 'old-fashioned way' without an iota
> of info on how to do 
> it.)
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