Re: [linuxtools-dev] eclipse plug-in for Linux perf tool

[Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thavidu,

* Thavidu Ranatunga <thavidur@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-05-28 02:26]:
> I'm getting very close to having a functional Perf plugin to release,

Cool!

> how do I go about adding it to the svn and such?

That depends.  Do you plan on maintaining it in the future?  While it
would be great to have, it's risky for us as a project to take
contributions without having someone dedicated to maintaining them.
That being said, a good first step is to open a bug with your code
attached (a zip is fine) so that it can be reviewed.

> I've made it a single plugin project (org.eclipse.linuxtools.perf), and I'm
> currently using the eclipse oprofile team sync thing- updates from the SVN
> come down to my workspace that perf is in but i'm not sure how to add perf
> to that so the perf plugin goes up too?

I don't know what you mean here.

> Its almost fully covers most of perf's functionality (with the exception of
> perf probes, which will be later), though theres plenty of TODOs and FIXMEs
> to clean up etc, but its working.

Cool :)

> Regarding the code re-use we talked about at the start, it turned out that
> most of what I needed already did lie in the linuxtools.profiling plugins,

That's great to hear!

> there was only 1-3 functions I actually pulled out of the oprofile-specific
> plugin itself, so i'm not really sure where a common 'profiling' layer
> would fit other than the one already there =)

Can you file bugs to get these functions brought into the profiling
framework?

Thanks and nice work.  Can you create a screenshot or screencast for us
to see?

Andrew