Like most teams that build C/C++ tools on top of Eclipse & CDT we have been building Carbide with the latest platform release and a somewhat forked version of CDT. This made sense as most of our releases have shipped in the winter or spring, long after the last major Eclipse release. But with the next major release of Carbide due after Helios we’ve jumped on the opportunity to align more closely on Eclipse 3.6 and CDT 7.0. How closely? Well, we’ve just started creating our Carbide builds with 3.6M5 and the CDT 7.0 sources straight out of the eclipse.org CVS repository.
We hesitated to do this in the past because it means we effectively have the entire CDT team contributing to Carbide in real time: any one of the committers can break our build or introduce bugs. But we’re more confident now and our experience with the CDT community has been very good: people rarely break the build and the quality and review of contributions has been excellent.
And since we sync up with the latest platform and CDT eventually anyway is makes more sense to discover any issues at the moment when the work is developed and contributed, not months later. Now both our internal test team and the Carbide beta group can give the new platform and CDT stuff a workout before it’s released. This also lets us get rid of our internal copy of CDT we would occasionally sync with the public one. Trying to keep it updated was a pain and it created a temping way for us to make changes that weren’t really ready to go back into the community.
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That's the other reason to get your team as committers. If issues do come up, it's a lot easier to fix upstream. It also helps us realize when we do break things ;).
Cool! We do something very similar. In my experience CDT HEAD is remarkably stable & frequent sync ups just make our product better.
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