Some issues with project plugin ?

[Waqar Ahmed]

I think the loop at the end of findFiles needs some adjustment so that
it can work with the loadFilesEntry function

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 3:07 PM Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)
<christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:
>
> On 2023-01-25 00:52, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Montag, 23. Januar 2023 23:42:41 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> are there any known issues with the project plugin ?
> >> I haven't investigated yet, but here is what I see:
> >> it looks like, that even though in the .kateproject file, the "files"
> >> entry
> >> is not empty, but contains a long list of files, kate doesn't seem to
> >> know
> >> about any files in that project. Is it possible that the "list" mode
> >> is
> >> broken ?
> >
> > It is indeed broken.
> >
> > In void KateProjectWorker::loadFilesEntry(), "fullFilePath" is set like
> > this:
> >             fullFilePath = dirPath + filePath;
> >
> > without checking whether filePath is already an absolute path.
> > So if the list of files in the kateproject file already contains
> > absolute paths,
> > the base directory is prepended to those absolute paths, which results
> > in bad
> > paths.
> >
> > I could check QFileInfo::isAbsolute(), but the comment says that's too
> > slow.
> > If nobody else is faster, I'll do something in the next days.
>
> If we only do that for the case that the user did explicit file
> specification
> in the .kateproject, speed should be no issue, that is only relevant for
> the git/...
> cases that generate file lists.
>
> >
> > Alex
>
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