Re: Re: Project Groups - UI proposal ready

Jesse Glick wrote:
> 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.

We can not know this for sure until we have design/UI spec for 
sharability. Do we have it?

Petr

> 
>> 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.
>