Re: Project Groups - UI proposal ready

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Hi Jesse,

I like the proposal. The problem with project groups has always been
that there are too many meanings of what they potentially could be, and
everyone has a different expectation of what a project group could do
for them. This proposal addresses most of the major use cases why
project groups were ever requested. I have just a couple comments.

First, I consider project groups a potentially suitable mechanism for
addressing the project sharability and headless build requirements, i.e.
I would like to check in a project into CVS, and after checking out on
another machine, I should be able to build it without requiring the IDE
to be installed. In fact, I must say I did not yet see a complete
proposal in this space that would *not* involve project groups in some
form. So, would it be possible to somehow enhance the project group
concept to also address this issue? In particular, the Folder group and
Master project group could be suitable for addressing this.

Secondly (and this is perhaps related to the previous note), would it be
sometimes useful to share some types of project groups among users,
rather than making them private as you suggest? Again, the Folder group
and Master project group look like good candidates, as they are
intrinsically the same for all users. Or at least, there could be the
*option* to share them with others.

Thanks,
Petr