iproject API

[Matt Rogers]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 27.07.08 23:25:24, Aleix wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was looking at the KDevelop::IProject class and I find some  
>> things strange:
>>
>> - virtual IPlugin* versionControlPlugin() const:
>> Is it being used at all? If we have this, why do we have all this  
>> mess
>> of items when right-clicking on an item in the project model view?
>
> Access to the VC plugin of a project is needed, even if not used right
> now. Think about plugins doing refactoring/file-renaming, those need  
> to
> check for VC plugin.
>
>> - Aren't redundant these methods?
>>    virtual int fileCount() const = 0;
>>    virtual ProjectFileItem* fileAt( int ) const = 0;
>>    virtual QList<ProjectFileItem*> files() const = 0;
>> And if not, is it that useful?
>
> There once was a page on our wiki talking about the first two methods
> being "the right API" and the latter being not so good. I can't find  
> it
> right now and I've already forgot the reasoning.
>

IIRC, it was solely for scripting support, from the commandline, I  
suppose.

> According to a quick grep the QList<> version is used quite a bit. I'm
> not sure what to do, can somebody else shed some light on why the  
> first
> two methods are better API than the latter?
>
> Andreas
>
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Matt