Local Project File [Re: Extending the IProjectFileManager interface]

[Matt Rogers]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> Jens Herden wrote:
>>> Have your users requested to put those files somewhere deeper inside
>>> the project tree or outside the project tree completely? I'm not
>>> against the idea, but I'd like to understand more why users want to
>>> put their project files somewhere outside the project itself.
>>
>> Outside of the tree. I have heard this together with the wish to  
>> have remote
>> projects. So the project is on some server but the project file is  
>> local. We
>> never recommend this, we always recommend VCS or a working copy  
>> and upload.
>> But we keep getting this questions.
>> So basicly they want to work directly via FTP on the webserver :-(
>> I know it is wrong but I tend to think that I am not responsible  
>> if people
>> screw up their work so I would like to see this option in the future.
>
> I don't think remote projects is an unreasonable request. In my work I
> have projects that must be built on a remote machine. It would be good
> to be able to work on them with a modern KDevelop that isn't  
> crippled by
> X-over-ssh halfway across the continent.
>
> That said, I think "performance" would be the only reason I'd want to
> keep the project files (really just the pcs) local in this instance.
>

I think you missed the point. Nobody is questioning whether or not to  
support remote projects. I wanted a use case for where a .kdev4 file  
for the project would not need to be kept with the project itself.
--
Matt