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RE: [platform-core-dev] What's a project
Title: What's a project
Hi Eric,
 
from what you say, it seems that you are talking about the Application Layer
that Michael mentioned (and that doesn't really exist in Eclipse today).
 
Multiple clients can have multiple "views" or "perspectives" on what they
need from the Project. I think that this "view" is similar to what a project
Nature is today, but more powerful since it would also allow resource
filtering, and adding application layer defined functionality.
 
It seems that you'd really like this view / nature to be extensible.
 
I'd think, though, that the most basic underlying functionality of
a project (that is : defining a resource set and persistable meta
data on it) should not be affected by application specific interpretation.
 
 
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
 
 

From: platform-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:platform-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Frey
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:15 PM
To: platform-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [platform-core-dev] What's a project

I think that one of the points that came up in the Telecon today that we seem to be in agreement about is that we need to have a common definition of "what's a project".

I'm not proposing a definition here, as I think we have to make a "project" an extensible concept, so that one definition of Project can be applied to multiple types of projects (Java, C++, Python, Web, RTL…).  I'd propose that we aim for Project becoming a base class, with a extension point, so that users will be able to extend the functionality of a projects.  I realize that there are a host of inherent problems involved with making this a reality, but I'd like to suggest that we at least try and come up with something in this area.  Similarly, I hope that a CDTProject might also be extensible.

Any extensible abstraction of Project also must address integration into the Project Explorer view.

There are lots of other things I'd like to see in Project, but they really are only useful to users such as nVidia if we can get at them to extend them.

Cheers,

Eric

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