Re: Project Groups - UI proposal ready

Petr Jiricka wrote:
> I'd like to make sure that the solution for project groups is not
> conceptually incompatible with a future solution for project
> shareability, and it is indeed possible to base the shareability
> solution on the project group concepts.

I think they are compatible, but in case of any discovered conflict the 
sharability features should take precedence anyway.

> Well, at least you would need to share the information that "this folder 
> represents a project group" (so you can list it in the group switching 
> UI), wouldn't you?

Not necessarily. You might for instance change the VCS checkout GUI to 
offer to create (and open) a folder group corresponding to the checkout 
root, rather than just opening the project associated with the root dir 
(if there is one). Generally, if folder groups are to be supported at 
all, it is trivial for someone to create and open one - as easy as 
opening an existing project. To "share this information" is as easy as 
telling someone to open a given folder; I don't think any special IDE 
feature is needed.

> Also, for the purpose of project sharing you may need 
> to associate additional information with the project group, such as (and 
> this is speculative) the "default location of the libraries folder" 
> (place where the IDE copies JUnit and other jars from the Library Manager).

This would not be part of the group definition, rather something else to 
be defined by a sharability proposal.

-J.

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