Re: [cdt-dev] proposal: move references tab

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

I'd like to see project reference management more visible. One idea I've
had the last few days working with project teams that are struggling to
set up their builds is to create a dialog that could be launched from the
Manage Configurations icon that lets you manage and visualize the
references for all your projects at once.

I need to understand the right visualization, maybe a tree on the right
for each project/config and a tree on the left that shows the dependency
for the selected config. But I found myself painfully bringing up the
properties for each project a few times over to make sure I had the
dependency tree set up correctly.

I guess the point is that it is a dependency tree when you have more that
two projects involved and that requires a new workflow to manage easily.

(my 2c)
Doug.

On 12-06-26 3:02 PM, "Cortell John-RAT042" <RAT042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hm. I'm not seeing how that would work (with good usability). If you have
>a more concrete idea, I'd like to hear it.
>
>I really don't like that there's two pages for roughly the same thing.
>There's no doubt it's confusing. But as with Memory Browser and Memory
>View, sometimes logistics and the hierarchical nature of Eclipse projects
>makes duplicity difficult to avoid. Again, single-focus commercial
>products can remove the platform page to at least solve the problem for
>their users.
>
>John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>>On
>> Behalf Of Eugene Ostroukhov
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:50 PM
>> To: CDT General developers list.
>> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] proposal: move references tab
>> 
>> Could this functionality be split in two? CDT could use platform
>>property
>> page for establishing coarse-grained references (e.g. make all build
>> configurations for given project depend on "Active" build configuration
>> for the referenced project) and have another "Advanced"
>> page for the users wishing to fine-tune project dependencies.
>> 
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