CDT Monthly Call December 8 2021

  1. Welcome and sign yourself in
    John Dallaway
    Jonah Graham
    Jeff Johnston
    Erik Hentschke
    Torbjörn Svensson
    Anton Krug
    William Riley
  2. Actions from last meeting
  • Action: Anton to raise specific bugs if there is anything on CDT side that can/should be done and notify cdt-dev so that interested parties can join the discussion re long paths (See last meeting minutes for details)
  1. 2021-12
  2. Ticket 577263 - How to handle libraries for projects using managed build.
  3. Any other business?

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Actions from last meeting details

  • Anton and long paths. Action carried forward to January

Minutes

  • Erik introduces background to bug 577263

    • The final output of the tool is not executable but a zip
    • There is a list option on the tool that has regressed due to bug 564257 - the change in bug 564257 was done for CDT 10.0 major release and advertised in the N&N
    • This means the command generator is not run anymore due to libs not being in the list
    • Various options have been discussed on how to solve
    • Action (John) Review gerrit to share opinion
    • Action (Torbjörn) put comments in bug on "getLibs"
  • Long paths

    • Torbjörn looking at JNA options that may solve long paths
    • Some bad news is that doing JNA cannot do forks of JVM.
    • Some problems with JustJ - it includes long paths with maven coordinates
    • There is public domain code in 7-zip to convert long paths to UNC
    • Action (Jonah) Share bug about JNA with UTF-8 problems
  • OpenJDK discussion

  • 2021-12

    • Release today!
  • Moving org.eclipse.remote

    • The org.eclipse.remote code is moving to CDT. Goal is to get it in in time for M1 (early January)
    • See Bug 577097
  • Moving GitHub

    • CDT will be moving at some point - no date yet, this is just the monthly reminder.

Next Meeting

January 12 at 11am (Ottawa, Canada time)