< Features
Feature Name
Eclipse Profiling Tools
Summary
We aim to bring the Linux Tools OProfile and Valgrind integration for the Eclipse IDE to Fedora.
Owner
- Name: Andrew overholt
- email: <overholt at redhat>
Current status
- Targeted release: 11
- Last updated: 2009-01-11
- Percentage of completion: 10%
Detailed Description
The work being done upstream at eclipse.org is being driving by Fedora / Red Hat people. We are attempting to bring the power of various native profiling tools into the Eclipse IDE and integrate with the rest of the development environment. Our target audience is people developing with and for Linux distributions. The first group we are targetting is native application developers programming in C and C++.
Benefit to Fedora
This functionality will enhance our development environment, enabling developers who are familiar with integrated development environments to more easily move to Linux. Fedora remains at the forefront of Linux distributions containing Eclipse technology and this will enable us to continue to lead in this area.
Scope
Upstream development, testing, releases, packaging for Fedora. This feature is isolated and has nothing that depends upon it.
How To Test
We have unit tests and release tests upstream. We will package upstream releases directly and verify that test results match. Once we have releases and packages, we will put instructions here describing how package users can verify the test results against their installed packages. We will also post a simple set of steps one can follow to verify that the functionality is present and working.
User Experience
FIXME (also add links to upstream screenshots, screencasts, etc.)
Dependencies
We will need to review EMF, create packages for BIRT (and potentially some of its dependencies should we decide to package more than just the charting framework we need for Valgrind), and create packages for the 3 Linux Tools projects this feature encompasses: the profiling framework (not end-user visible but necessary for the other two), OProfile functionality, and Valgrind functionality. Due to timeline differences between Fedora 11 and Eclipse 3.5 (May and June respectively), we will most likely continue with Eclipse 3.4.x in Fedora 11 and thus won't depend upon other features.
Contingency Plan
Continue without such functionality in the distro.
Documentation
FIXME
Release Notes
FIXME (nothing really needed)