I've installed the Galileo release (Eclipse 3.5/CDT 5.1) in hopes of utilizing the better refactoring support mentioned in
What is the state of C++ refactor support in Eclipse?
However I do not see all the mentioned refactoring options listed. I don't see any plug-ins related to refactoring on
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/galileo
Attempts to add the plugin directly from the refactoring site fails http://ifs.hsr.ch/cdtrefactoring/updatesite/ due to outdated dependencies, so I'm assuming the newest release should have the latest refactoring abilities.
Am I correct in this?
How do others refactor in Eclipse CDT? Do people use other tools/plugins?
Best Answer
You should install CDT 6.0. However, my guess is that the options mentioned in the question you linked are not yet ready for mainline.
My CDT offers Rename, Extract Variable/Constant/Function, Hide Method.
From those, I only use Rename regularly, the others do not yet seem finished.
One of the problems with such tools for C++ is that the language is way more complex than other languages (think templates, macros etc.) so implementing such a tool needs tremendously more effort than for, say, Java.