Monthly Archives: March 2009

Adding new sites to the eclipse updater “hangs”

Posted on March 19, 2009 by frank

Just for the record: If adding a new site to your eclipse updater seems to hang/times out (entry is always “pending…”), its most probably not a problem with the update site itself but rather some firewall interfering. Make sure you … Continue reading →

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Installing a gcc4.4 snapshot on Ubuntu

Posted on March 8, 2009 by frank

The upcoming gcc4.4 release adds a few more C++0x features (initializer lists, auto typed variables, defaulted and deleted functions, strongly typed enums, …) to the in this regard still very incomplete g++. To be able to play with it one … Continue reading →

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Eclipse CDT 6 Milestone 5

Posted on March 7, 2009 by frank

The final release of CDT6 is still a few month ahead (scheduled for ~June) but there are already public milestone builds available. I haven’t played much with M5 but one thing that directly caught my attention is that you no … Continue reading →

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