Local Project File [Re: Extending the IProjectFileManager interface]

[Jens Herden]

On Thursday 05 July 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 05.07.07 14:02:56, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 July 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 03.07.07 22:10:57, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 03 July 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > On 03.07.07 21:10:05, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > > > >  Our idea was to store such information in the project
> > > > > > configuration file (the "local" one if such exists now, not the
> > > > > > one that is shared between users).
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, thats what the projectmanager does when importing the file.
> > > >
> > > > BTW, I couldn't find how to access the local file. It seems to be
> > > > commented out now.
> > >
> > > Uhm, you don't access that file. You access the projects
> > > configuration. And all changes done will be written to the local
> > > file. This way using remote projects is completely transparent for
> > > the plugins.
> >
> > Maybe I wasn't clear about the local file. Of course, I shouldn't care
> > if the project was remote or not, and if the file I'm writing on is
> > *exactly* the project file or a local copy of it.
> >
> > What I meant all above with the local file is the file that is not
> > shared by developers. Do we still have this concept?
>
> Yes, its stored in <project>/.kdev4/<projectname>.kdev4 and access to it
> is given through the projectConfiguration() API.
>
> > I mean, in
> > KDevelop3 and Quanta3 there is the project file and a project session
> > file (yeah, this is a better name). Theoretically the project file
> > contains only information that are relevant for all developers, while
> > the session file is specific for the current developer. Propertis IMO
> > can go in both files, as they might be shearable or not.
>
> No they can't, the project file is read-only because a
> read-write-approach didn't work out. So now project-default-config is
> read from the project-file, but storing is always done into the
> local-file (or session file, whatever you call it).

Now I am confused very much. Do you mean we have one *.kdev4 file which is 
read-only (which is supposed to be in a VCS) and one 
<project>/.kdev4/<projectname>.kdev4 which is read-write (which is supposed 
to be _not_ in a VCS)? 

Jens

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