AW: [cdt-dev] Hierarchical "inheritance" of project properties

["Ploett Norbert" <norbert.ploett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex,

thank you, yes, I would like to look into your suggestion.



Norbert 

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Alex Chapiro
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2005 18:40
An: CDT General developers list.
Betreff: Re: [cdt-dev] Hierarchical "inheritance" of project properties

I dare to remind once already proposed container projects as a 
hierarchical project solution. I wrote about it in my comments to main 
MBS bug report in Bugzilla. If it can interest anybody I can provide 
more detailed description.

Treggiari, Leo wrote:

>Hi Norbert,
>
>  
>
>>we are trying eclipse and CDT on a couple of sources for which
>>generation was previously started from the command line (make files).
>>When doing it in eclipse we ended up creating about 100 managed make
>>projects which have similar, but not quite identical, project
>>    
>>
>settings.
>
>If the files are the same for all of these projects, I'd suggest that
>you use one project with 100 configurations rather than 100 projects
>(see below).
>
>  
>
>>Now if we find that we want to change some of these settings later on
>>    
>>
>it
>  
>
>>would be convenient to be able to define something like a hierarchy so
>>that a change of, say, a compiler switch is immediately propagated to
>>all subprojects except for those where the switch value was
>>    
>>
>"explicitly"
>  
>
>>set differently.
>>
>>Also it would be nice to have a view where the 100+ projects are not
>>simply listed one after the other as in the "C/C++ Projects" or
>>Navigator views, but can be structured in a deeper tree.
>>
>>I wonder whether anything of the sort has been considered before. Can
>>anybody point me to documentation / bugzilla / mailing threads where
>>this was discussed?
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think that Eclipse supports a hierarchy of projects, but I 
>could be wrong.  We haven't considered a hierarchy of MBS 
>configurations, but I have suggested the following, which we could
>implement in a future release.
>
>The proposal is to add a "category" attribute to a configuration that
>could be set by the tool integrator or the CDT user.  The "category"
>would be an arbitrary text string that could be used to group 
>configurations together.  Common examples might include "debug",
>"release", "IA32", etc.  The MBS UI would then allow you to select a
>set of configurations by category, and modify the values of all of the
>configurations in the set in the same manner that you modify a single
>configuration now.
>
>Regards,
>Leo
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>On Behalf Of Ploett Norbert
>Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:52 AM
>To: CDT General developers list.
>Subject: [cdt-dev] Hierarchical "inheritance" of project properties
>
>Hello all,
>
>we are trying eclipse and CDT on a couple of sources for which
>generation was previously started from the command line (make files).
>When doing it in eclipse we ended up creating about 100 managed make
>projects which have similar, but not quite identical, project settings.
>
>Now if we find that we want to change some of these settings later on it
>would be convenient to be able to define something like a hierarchy so
>that a change of, say, a compiler switch is immediately propagated to
>all subprojects except for those where the switch value was "explicitly"
>set differently.
>
>Also it would be nice to have a view where the 100+ projects are not
>simply listed one after the other as in the "C/C++ Projects" or
>Navigator views, but can be structured in a deeper tree.
>
>I wonder whether anything of the sort has been considered before. Can
>anybody point me to documentation / bugzilla / mailing threads where
>this was discussed?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Norbert
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