Re: Integrated compiler/project support

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:46:31 -0400, Jesse Glick wrote:

>> 2) Don't force projects. The reason I've used Netbeans over Eclipse
>> in the past is because I never had to create projects. Sometimes you
>> just want to open an editor, modify the code, recompile and quit the
>> IDE; something that you can't do when you have to create a project
>> first. I suggest one of two solutions: make sure a default project is
>> always open when you start Netbeans *or* auto-generate projects
>> around source-code files like VC++ 7.1 does.

>And what classpath should the source file be compiled with? And where 
>should it be compiled to? And which compiler flags (e.g. -source 1.4) 
>should be used? The IDE cannot really guess these things. Or rather it 
>*can* guess but the guess will be wrong so frequently as to make the 
>feature not that useful.

	All major IDEs allow a user to open a source-code file without a project and if the user tries doing funky 
things like compiling they are smart enough to auto-create a project with some default settings. Netbeans should be 
smart enough to do the same.

Gili