Re: [cdt-dev] Using Eclipse CDT's Parser in a Standalone RefactoringTool

[Jeffrey Overbey <subscribe-cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If you want to work with the CDT parser, I recommend to use CDT projects 
> for that (Why would you not do so?).


As the guy building the refactoring engine in Photran, I have to agree 
with Markus on this.  Eclipse has some very nice infrastructure for 
refactoring tools.  For example, the LTK provides a Preview window which 
shows a graphical diff, and a set of Change objects basically gives you 
Undo for free.  Moreover, if you're interested in refactoring C, the CDT 
already has a (single-configuration) preprocessor, a way to specify 
#include paths, etc., and I believe Markus added some new C-specific 
refactoring infrastructure (prettyprinter, etc.) in CDT 5.  IMHO, the 
cost of learning this framework is a lot lower than the cost of building 
it yourself...

Jeff Overbey
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign