Re: debugging w/o projects [was: File menu gone ?]

Ivan Soleimanipour <[email protected]> Wed, 7 May 2003 13:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Jan Jancura <[email protected]>
> >
> >This is related to the File issue in the sense that editing files
> >isn't the only thing that one might want to do outside of the world of
> >projects. Maybe one conclusion from this might be that debuggercore
> >should be able to  be configured so it worls if there are no projects?
> >
> >  
> >
> This is one possibility. Secon one is that you will create some dummy 
> project in this case.
> (I prefer second one).
> Hanz
> 



But you want build "components" that are _less_ coupled, not
_more_ entangled. 

I still maintain that the debugger should define a "bag" of stuff
that projects keeps for it. The projects framework should
not have to know what's in that bag. The debugger should
be able to work with a given bag w/o access to a project.

This probably applies to "tools" other than debuggers as well.

Look at it from the POV of complexity. A common complexity metric is
looking at a dependency graph and seeing how many edges each node
has. The goal is to minimize the # of edges.