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

Jan Jancura <[email protected]> Mon, 12 May 2003 16:43:23 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:

>>From: Jan Jancura <[email protected]>
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>>>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?
>>>
Do you mean no projects module, or no opened project instance?

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>>This is one possibility. Secon one is that you will create some dummy 
>>project in this case.
>>(I prefer second one).
>>Hanz
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>But you want build "components" that are _less_ coupled, not
>_more_ entangled. 
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>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.
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I do not want to duplicate all stuff with project logis and storing of 
project properties. Its HARD task for me. I understand your proposal, 
but I think that some dummy project will be easier to implement.

Hanz


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