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Re: [cdt-dev] workspace refresh after build

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:34 AM, James Blackburn
<jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 23 July 2010 18:58, Alena Laskavaia <elaskavaia.cdt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I though somebody added a feature to suppress workspace refresh after
>> build is done, but I cannot find
>> it in build properties, was I dreaming?
>
> The patches that are about aren't configurable enough to be committed as is.
> Simply disabling all refresh is too draconian as various bits of CDT assume
> that the workspace tree is in-sync.
> There are a number of bugs which propose improvements to the sync issues and
> making it better / more lightweight. It's something that's on our high
> priority list, so I'm hoping to get some time to work on this soon. If we
> had core.resources support for async non-blocking refresh (which just
> requires some plumbing to the existing refresh
> manager: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=313673) we could make
> the CDT end work much better.
> Cheers,
> James

That's exactly what we need. Long running operations should always be
run in the background and be non-blocking as much as possible. That's
just good UI principles.

We should push to get this into 3.7. Let me and/or Martin O know if
you need help.

Doug.


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