UI-less kdevplatform

[Matt Rogers]

On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Aleix wrote:

> On 8/6/08, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 06.08.08 13:56:02, Aleix wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06.08.08 04:15:19, Aleix wrote:
>>>>> On 8/5/08, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On 05.08.08 04:18:56, Aleix wrote:
>>>>>>> - This is not very related but needed too, a method to the
>>>>>>> ProjectController to add a custom project in the IDE. I used  
>>>>>>> it to
>>>>>>> instantiate a Project with a custom projectmanager without the  
>>>>>>> need
>>>> of
>>>>>>> a Plugin and so (even if it is an IPlugin).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't quite understand why this is needed. Why can't you just  
>>>>>> load
>>>> the
>>>>>> project the normal way? IProject isn't really supposed to be
>>>> subclassed
>>>>>> outside shell/
>>>>> I think it is useful to be able to do it without having  
>>>>> installed the
>>>>> whole plugin and, anyway,
>>>>
>>>> Which plugin are you talking about? And I still don't understand  
>>>> the
>>>> use-case, when would somebody call this function? And why can't  
>>>> he use
>>>> openProject.
>>>
>>> Well, it is a code that I can't commit until I have this changes In.
>>
>>
>> Sigh :( You're still not explaining why you need it, what the  
>> problem is
>> you're trying to solve. I was pretty sure that you had some code that
>> would use this, but I'd like to know why you can't go the "normal"  
>> way.
>>
>> Andreas
> Ah, ok, I have done a newer version for what xmltokross does using
> duchain. Let's call it duchaintokross.
> duchaintokross, to parse the files needs a project who provides the
> include directories so we need an IBuildSystemManager that provides
> it.
> We don't want to load a project for that, we just want to provide this
> information so the usual IProject way to work is broken for 2 reasons:
> - We don't want to have it installed because it will be useless to
> other projects.
> - We don't have a project to _open_.
>
> Bye!
> Aleix

So is there a technical reason why this patch can't go in? Aleix needs  
this to implement Kross support for KDevelop as part of his SoC  
project and I don't really see any real objections.
--
Matt