Mikhail K was interested
in our plans for integrating DSF
into the core CDT. I guess, in summary, my plan is to move the host
development
support to whichever framework works best and has the most contributors
working
on it. But the goal is to support both DSF and CDI and allow tools
integrators
to make the choice. And that includes ensuring the two play nicely
together.
This brought up a
question I have. Is anyone really working
on making sure host development works? I did a lot of work in CDT 4 to
make
sure MinGW worked and to help Cygwin along. I will likely stop working
on
cygwin in the future since my efforts there will be on supporting the
CDT for
Windows distribution which is based on MinGW. I’m not sure anyone is
working on making sure Linux tools integrations continue to work,
although that
is probably the easiest and we’ve been lucky enough that there aren’t
many issues there. I do know we have a lot of issues on Mac OS X, which
does
make up a significant and growing part of our community. All of the
committers
are focused on making sure their commercial tools integrations continue
to
work, which they have all the right to. But how do we make sure the
problems
that the community is having with host development get addressed.
Finding
contributors with vested interest in these platforms would be the best
approach.
Linux should theoretically be easy, but I’ve almost given up hope for
Windows, thus the CDT for Window distro to help focus effort there, and
I have
no idea about Mac…