| [cdt-dev] Solutions/nested projects |
One of our multi-core product teams requested support for a project hierarchy allowing one 'main'-core project to have several sub-core projects below it. Unfortunately, and in my opinion a major shortcoming, Eclipse only supports a flat project hierarchy where projects have to be defined directly under the workspace. See Bugzilla CR35973, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35973 As described in comment 19 of this CR, one solution is to use project references as parent->child relations and use that to show hierarchy within a view. Attached a plugin that provides such a view (basically an extension to the CDT C view). When added to the Eclipse plugin directory an entry 'Nested C/C++ Projects' will appear in the list of C/C++ views. When opened, referenced projects like libraries should appear as childs of the project(s) referencing them. This view also allows grouping of projects by creating a new 'General' project, e.g. 'USB examples' and referencing all usb example projects from that one. Please note that I fully agree with the conclusion from comment 19, that a better solution is to support project nesting within the API, but in absence of a target milestone for this issue, using project references might be a usefull way to show some hierarchy within a workspace. Regards, Wieant
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com.example.cview_1.0.0.jar
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