[Cpptool-develop] Ready to release ?

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

    We have been working on this project for a while now, and I think the
time has come for us to release something.

    We don't have much refactorings yet, but they works fairly well. I still
amazed by the excellent result we get with RenameLocaleVariable with the
such a simple implementation.

    We have add-ins for 3 popular IDE, which is enough to demonstrate that
it is not tied to a particluar IDE.

    Most of the development we currently have underway (full parser, code
rewritter) will take some time before being ready for release, so I think
the time is right for an 'early release'.

    What should we release ?

    Binaries version of the add-ins:
* Visual C++ 6:
    - a simple zip, with install instruction (and a .bat for installation if
the environment variable is correctly set. Should we bother with a setup ?
(VC add-in can be deduced from the registry).

* Visual Studio 7:
    - a simple zip with a register.bat and unregister.bat for 'installation'
of the add-in.
    - a MSI based installer (generated by VS7). Seems to work fine for me,
but I've seen that failing badly in the past (weird error message).

* Eclipse:
    - ? Andre what would be the most convenient for Eclipse user ? Eclipse
probably have a special place for ad-in announcement. Do we need to prepare
something for that ?

    Source version:
    - zip and/or tar.gz ?
    - do we need more details about the dependencies (were boost should be
installed) ? I'm thinking of making a 'precompiled dependencies package'
that could be dropped into deplib/

    Documentation:
    What do we need to do ?
    - We should probably at least describe each refactoring and their
limitation.
    - A brief description of each add-in and specifities (VC6 'bad' undo...)

    We also need to update the home page (cpptool.sf.net). If somebody come
by, there is no indication that we even got some refactoring working !

    Remarks, suggestions ?

    Baptiste.