Multi Project Gui [was: KDev4 SDK Single or Multiple Projects?]

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 30.01.07 21:18:21, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 11:21, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 29.01.07 18:30:37, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > So lets talk about Gui's for multiple projects. One way would be to
> > extend the project model and have the projects as top-level items. Which
> > is kind of the same thing as eclipse does, only that we don't need a
> > workspace for that.
> 
> I never understood what the "Workspace" in Eclipse is. Neither I understand 
> the difference between dsp and dsw files in MSVC.

Well, its a meta-project-thingie, i.e. its the container for all your
projects. Although I have to agree that there's no point in having such
a thing, IMHO.


> Last week I found "Programmers Notepad" (http://www.pnotepad.org/), which is 
> somewhere between Kate and KDevelop. 
> There you have projects and you can have also a "group of projects". This is 
> easy to understand: a project has a working dir, a list of files/directories 
> and some settings. A group of projects just opens several projects at once 
> and in a tree view you select the active one. 
> You can open either the "group of projects" file, or you can open the 
> contained projects separately.

Does the treeview of projects also contain the files/dirs of that
project? Or is it just for the projects themselves? 

> Another thing:
> with CMake you can define "projects" in several ways.

Hmm, I'm not sure what Matt has in mind wrt to the project() call.

> So in this sense it might feel better to have a "group of projects" for one 
> source tree managed by one cmake, and also separate smaller projects.

Uhm, a KDevelop project won't have kdevelop subprojects. Of course we
can have the subprojects specially highlighted in the tree view. 

Andreas

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