KDevelop4 API questions

[Matt Rogers]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:07, mwoehlke wrote:
> Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 August 2006 02:29, Jens Herden wrote:
> >>>>> are they actually used anywhere? If not, then we can remove them and
> >>>>> if we need them later, then add them then.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please don't.  I know I need to document them, but they do have a
> >>>> purpose...
> >>>>
> >>>> projectDirectory == the dir where the current project file is located.
> >>>>
> >>>> projectsDirectory == the dir where the user holds all of his project
> >>>> folders ... perhaps this can be renamed to better illustrate what it
> >>>> is.
> >>>>
> >>>> Both of them are useful though, please don't remove.
> >>>
> >>> But not all project folders are in the same place, so I still don't see
> >>> the point of either of these functions since projectDirectory is
> >>> duplicated from KDevProject and well, right now, projectsDirectory
> >>> doesn't make sense to me.
> >>
> >> Oh that is new for me. I thought that project files and folders must
> >> have a common base folder? But the project file can be at an arbitrary
> >> location where also the hidden .kde4 folder is created. Am I wrong here?
> >
> > Yes, project files and folders must reside under a particular folder.
> > However, the project file can no longer be stored at an arbitrary
> > location. We might change that, dunno yet, a lot of this stuff is still
> > in flux.
>
> Ok, I'll admit I don't understand entirely what's going on here, but by
> "project file", are we talking about what in 3.x is 'foobar.kdevelop'?
> (Private explanations welcome if you don't want to clutter the list.)

yes, that is correct.