Re: getting to ProjectMember from SourceElement

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 18:47, Peter Wisnovsky wrote:
>  > There is a big difference among files which are on the ProjectFileSystem
>  > (the FS which contains the project definition, the project file system
>  > always implies a single Project) and file object which are belonging to
>  > the project(s) but are on the other filesystems (local, ftp,...).
> 
> Ah, this was my confusion. I supposed that the "project file system"
> in the docs was the directory on disk that held the files of the
> project. Would I be correct in supposing this the project equivelent
> of the XML system filesystem of old?
> 
Well, the "project filesystem" is an implementation detail of how the
project definition (= build steps, references to sources, libs, other
projects, run profiles, settings for all the above) is stored. Since we
needed a hiearchical storage for an unbound set of data types, a
Filesystem looked natural (with all the loaders feeding from it).
The project filesystem is actually a tuple of XML filesystem loaded from
the .project file and a local working area underneath /Projects on the
system filesystem; when the project is saved/closed, those two are
merged (they are both filesystems, after all) and written back to the
.project XML file.

-Svata