Re: [cdt-dev] CConfigurationData and friends

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 05 November 2008 17:30:00 James Blackburn wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > As far as I see, the CConfigurationDescription class holds an instance
> > of CConfigurationData and relays most of operations there,
> > and there some classes derived from CConfigurationData, for
> > example BuildConfigurationData. The latter class is created
> > in the constructor of the Configuration class.
> >
> > Can somebody explain the rationale behind this design -- as
> > it seems slightly more complex than it could be. For example,
> > why managed build cannot have class ManagedBuildConfigurationDescription,
> > derived from IConfigurationDescription/CConfigurationDescription, that
> > does basically the same thing that BuildConfigurationData does now?
>
> I think part of the design is that bare-bones configuration
> descriptions live in cdt.core while the build system uses real
> configurations.
>
> > On a related topic, what is the purpose of the CDataProxy class. It
> > has no comments so it's a bit hard to understand what problems it
> > is solving.
>
> I agree this stuff is very opaque.  Is there any hope that someone
> from Intel (or indeed anyone with knowledge of the
> internal.core.settings) might be on today's CDT call?  Doug, is the
> Project Model on the agenda for discussion?  It'd be great to start
> moving in the direction of a project model that's understandable to
> the extended CDT community.

Any update on this? 

Thanks,
Volodya