Re: Project Groups - UI proposal ready

Jesse Glick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Organization Sun Microsystems / NetBeans
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Petr Jiřička wrote:
> I consider project groups a potentially suitable mechanism for
> addressing the project sharability and headless build requirements

This is a much bigger and more complicated issue which I am in no way 
intending to address with the project group feature, which is purely an 
attempt to make it easier to open and close related projects more 
quickly than is currently possible. However, any major sharability 
feature could probably be integrated at the GUI level with project 
groups, perhaps using the Folder group kind.

> 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.

But for these group kinds, there is no real reason to share the 
definitions, as the definitions are trivial and can be recreated in a 
moment in another developer's IDE if desired. It would be more logical 
to share a non-autosynch free group, although I am not convinced there 
is a lot of value in this. Sharing an autosynch free group would be a 
bad idea because just opening any other project for a quick peek would 
change a definition file in version control, very likely causing a merge 
conflict on your next update.

-J.

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