| Re: [cdt-dev] Maestrosoft Studio Plugin |
Done! Discussion can start at: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=459272 Guy From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Schaefer Thanks, Guy. It’s certainly an interesting proposal. I know people have tried our existing VS plug-in and it is really low on features and as far as I’m aware, unmaintained. So any attempt to improve our support for the VS toolchain would be appreciated by at least a few in the community. At a time when VS was not free, it certainly made sense for CDT to support that environment. When the community edition came out, it definitely changed the game. But I think there is something to be said about using a single IDE for all your needs. That’s why I fell in love with Eclipse. The frameworks we provide make that possible. Being able to use Eclipse to build a Windows C++ program, a Java/_javascript_ cloud service, and program your Arduino, can’t be done with any other tool. The other factor to consider is what’s happened to the GNU tools on Windows lately. Cygwin is cygwin. It’s a *nix emulation layer which makes it really hard for native tools such as Eclipse to work with. The MinGW community has fractured as the old mingw.org has stagnated and new projects like mingw-64 (which also does 32) and msys2 are struggling along even though they have better technology. VisualC++ is really the best toolchain for that environment, especially if you want to do product. I’m a big fan of Qt, which lets you build cross-platform apps, including our very own QNX :). Visual C++ is the better supported toolchain there as well. So, I guess in the end, I’d like to encourage you to contribute this. I think there is at least some need. I haven’t had a chance to look at what you’re plug-in does. But feel free to open a bug and we can discuss technical details there. Doug. From: Guy Bonneau <guy.bonneau@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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