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Re: [cdt-dev] CDI Debugger will be REMOVED in CDT 9.0/Neon
You need to be careful about what part of DSF you want to refactor. The original intent was that the general framework could be pushed down to the Platform Debug. That could still be possible with some refactoring I assume.

For the more general gdb/C++ debugging case, we should consider ways to improve the debug experience by leveraging the knowledge that the CDT core has about the code in the projects and about what toolchain is being used to build those projects, which generally determine which debugger you want to use with DSF.

But I’ll say this, I’m not sure DSF is the right framework for debugger integration to begin with. It does more, like handle the flexible hierarchy, and CDI can’t do that. But there’s way too much magic behind DSF, to quote Uncle Bob (http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/08/06/LetTheMagicDie.html). We really need to ask ourselves if we really need all that magic.

As I have great success redoing the build system to a simpler model, I imagine we could do the same with debug at some point. And while doing that, we need to make sure we can handle many different languages, not just C and C++ but all the ones that Bruno works with and the entire Clang and gcc family as well.

Doug.


From: <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 9:50 AM
To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] CDI Debugger will be REMOVED in CDT 9.0/Neon

If someone is willing to do the necessary changes to remove those dependencies, then yes, CDT 9.0 is the ideal opportunity.

Marc

From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Bruno Medeiros [bruno.do.medeiros@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: August 12, 2015 8:58 AM
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] CDI Debugger will be REMOVED in CDT 9.0/Neon

While we're on the subject, any chance to improve the plugin dependencies that the CDT DSF debugger has on the Core and UI CDT plugins? (that is, remove them to only the minimum required - likely requiring refactoring to a CDT commons plugin)
This is a throwback to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=421166 . It might also help make the Standalone debugger a bit leaner?

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

extenders should be aware that the CDI Debugger will be removed from the CDT code base
as part of the CDT 9.0/Neon release.

Anyone still based on CDI should migrate to DSF before then if they want to continue to compile
with the latest CDT. 

Such a migration has been done by many over the last few years.
The CDT community should be a good resource to get this done for those that may be
finding it difficult.  Searching this mailing list will surely provide some good pointers.

CDT of course provides the DSF-GDB integration which is a very rich example, as well
as an example plugin that extends DSF-GDB itself, for those that use GDB/MI.

Marc



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