| RE: [platform-core-dev] What's a project, |
Regarding John's comments on "project", it seems to me that the definition of what constitutes a project is almost inevitably dependent on the programming language and/or toolsets being used. Trying to force everything into the JDT mold of "projects" doesn't fit well in the CDT (or Web) worlds. To CDT, a project is related to building something - a .exe, .so or .a. Groups of projects then make "solutions".
In the Web world, a project might represent a single URL, but be composed of scripts, media in multiple forms and compiled code.
It's for this reason that I advocate extensible Project objects, letting each component fashion projects to the needs of the component (and not trying to conform the needs to the model of a Java project).
This is clearly a difficult challenge. I agree with John when he says "attach an absolute minimum level of semantic significance", but I don't think that we should then "fence off" this minimal definition of Project.
Cheers,
Eric