Re: [cdt-dev] Handling DSF's dependencies to CDT

[Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I think it's perfectly appropriate to make DSF dependent on CDT 
preference settings.

Thanks,
Pawel

On 02/23/2012 08:10 AM, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> Hi all, Pawel,
>
> In https://bugs.eclipse.org/370462 Mathias Kunter is making DSF-GDB
> respect the preference C/C++->Debug, about number format default values.
>
> Winnie Lai is helping and contributed a patch containing in part a
> utility method that converts CDT's
>    ICDIFormat.<format>
> which is used by the preference page, to DSF's
>    IFormattedValues.<format>
>
> It is unclear to me if this conversion belongs in the DSF framework or not
> (if not, it would go into DSF-GDB).  DSF is already dependant on the CDT
> plugin that provides ICDIFormat (org.eclipse.cdt.debug.core), so it
> sounds ok to put the code directly in DSF.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> In fact, we can go one step further and ask: should the DSF framework
> respect the preference C/C++->Debug page itself, or should we keep the
> logic in DSF-GDB?
>
> Thanks for any guidance
>
> Marc