| Re: [cdt-dev] CDT-8.4 requires Eclipse 4.x ... CDT-8.3.x maintenance ? |
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I think you were in the room. At the CDT summit in Reston in 2013, we promised one more release of 3.8 compatibility and that's it. That was Kepler.
Adopters have had 4 years to move to 4.x or have their problems raised and fixes contributed. I have no sympathy for them if they feel "stuck" on 3.x. The Eclipse Platform team no longer supports it, why should we? We should get everyone on to 4.x to make sure it's getting the eyes and contributions it needs and we can continue to move the yardsticks forward. If there are vendors stuck on 3.x for whatever reason, they are free to fork and support it themselves. Doug. From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Oberhuber, Martin [Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 6:32 PM To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [cdt-dev] CDT-8.4 requires Eclipse 4.x ... CDT-8.3.x maintenance ? Hi all,
While CDT-8.3 could work on Eclipse 3.8.2 it seems that CDT-8.4 now requires Eclipse 4.x (some CSS dependency in o.e.cdt.ui).
I seem to have missed the discussion where this was agreed on. For some in the community, this might be a very relevant thing to know; So if some discussion has happened, can you point me to it ? And make sure it gets mentioned in the Luna Release Review.
TCF-1.2 for instance is designed to still run on Eclipse 3.8.2 , that’s what we agreed with some of our adopters; therefore we can only depend on CDT-8.3 and none of the newer API’s (like bug 303083 – sigh – trying to find a solution here). We are of course contributing to Luna and testing against Eclipse-4.4 / CDT-8.4 but we’re building against CDT-8.3 and the old API’s only.
I see some maintenance still ongoing in the cdt_8_3 branch: http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/log/?h=cdt_8_3 Could the CDT committers consider a CDT 8.3.1 maintenance release for those stuck on Eclipse 3.8.2 at some point ?
Thanks, Martin -- Martin Oberhuber, SMTS / Product Owner – Development Tools, Wind River direct +43.662.457915.85 fax +43.662.457915.6
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