[cdt-dev] Refactoring Support for CDT

[Emanuel Graf <egraf@xxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Yesterday was the last day of our diploma thesis "C++ Refactoring 
Support for Eclipse CDT". During the preceding semester project and the 
diploma thesis I and Leo implemented the following refactorings:
- Move Method
- Move Field
- Extract Constant
- Extract Subclass
- Extract Method
- Hide Method

To support the refactorings we implemented a code generator and a 
"virtual preprocessing". The "Virtual Preprocessing" adds the 
information about the preprocessor directive to the AST. We also 
extended several existing CDT-parts for a better refactoring support.

A cdt 3.1.1 version including all our work is available on our project 
wiki http://wiki.hsr.ch/cdt/wiki.cgi?SoftwareDownloads for several 
platforms. We use Java 1.5 so you'll need a corresponding jre to try our 
work out. By the way what's the current status of the Java 1.5 vote?
The documentation in German is also available on the Download-Page. I'll 
translate the imported parts of our work next year.  As we mentioned at 
the beginning of our semester project we'd like to commit our work to 
the CDT.

On January I'll start my job as an assistant at the Institute for 
Software so I can continue the work we began. The Institute has also 
announced a proposal for a student project on C++ Unit Testing, so 
hopefully we can announce more CDT related work next year.

greetings
Emanuel Graf & Leo Büttiker

p.s. Next week we will be on a short diploma celebration trip and not 
able to answer mails.