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digitalmars.D.ide - Directory Project Support in IDE's?

reply John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
One thing that keeps me from using most of the available IDE's for D is 
the (seeming) lack of "directory project" support in them.

This is what I mean:

When I open something like Poseidon or Descent (Eclipse), I would love 
to just jump into a project directory and treat that as a active 
project.  I don't want to have to go through the pain of creating a new 
project and importing all the files into it (copying them in the 
process). This would be handy for quickly moving into a already started 
project using it's active structure (like dwt or the sample dwt projects).

So how about this? Is there a simple way just to start a project based 
on directory alone (the IDE may create some sort of project file in that 
directory if need be)?  I really wish it was just that simple 
considering all the projects available on dsource... very few of them 
contain a ready made project file for any of the D ide's.

This seemingly minor lack has made me mostly disinterested in using 
powerful ide's like eclipse/descent or poseidon.  Or perhaps I just 
don't know how to use them.

-JJR
Feb 24 2008
next sibling parent reply Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:
At least in Descent, create a new project, select the option "Create 
project from existing source" and enter the directory you wish to use. 
No files will be copied and, as you said, a project file will be created 
in that directory.

Is that what you want?

John Reimer escribió:
 One thing that keeps me from using most of the available IDE's for D is 
 the (seeming) lack of "directory project" support in them.
 
 This is what I mean:
 
 When I open something like Poseidon or Descent (Eclipse), I would love 
 to just jump into a project directory and treat that as a active 
 project.  I don't want to have to go through the pain of creating a new 
 project and importing all the files into it (copying them in the 
 process). This would be handy for quickly moving into a already started 
 project using it's active structure (like dwt or the sample dwt projects).
 
 So how about this? Is there a simple way just to start a project based 
 on directory alone (the IDE may create some sort of project file in that 
 directory if need be)?  I really wish it was just that simple 
 considering all the projects available on dsource... very few of them 
 contain a ready made project file for any of the D ide's.
 
 This seemingly minor lack has made me mostly disinterested in using 
 powerful ide's like eclipse/descent or poseidon.  Or perhaps I just 
 don't know how to use them.
 
 -JJR
Feb 25 2008
parent John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 At least in Descent, create a new project, select the option "Create 
 project from existing source" and enter the directory you wish to use. 
 No files will be copied and, as you said, a project file will be created 
 in that directory.
 
 Is that what you want?
 
Yep, that's it. Thanks for pointing it out. I wasn't sure how to do that with descent. I will give that a try. -JJR
Feb 25 2008
prev sibling parent reply Kuan Hsu <army1833t edirect168.com> writes:
John Reimer Wrote:

 One thing that keeps me from using most of the available IDE's for D is 
 the (seeming) lack of "directory project" support in them.
 
 This is what I mean:
 
 When I open something like Poseidon or Descent (Eclipse), I would love 
 to just jump into a project directory and treat that as a active 
 project.  I don't want to have to go through the pain of creating a new 
 project and importing all the files into it (copying them in the 
 process). This would be handy for quickly moving into a already started 
 project using it's active structure (like dwt or the sample dwt projects).
 
 So how about this? Is there a simple way just to start a project based 
 on directory alone (the IDE may create some sort of project file in that 
 directory if need be)?  I really wish it was just that simple 
 considering all the projects available on dsource... very few of them 
 contain a ready made project file for any of the D ide's.
 
 This seemingly minor lack has made me mostly disinterested in using 
 powerful ide's like eclipse/descent or poseidon.  Or perhaps I just 
 don't know how to use them.
 
 -JJR
At Shawn Liu's original design, poseidon was used "directory project", while project open, it will load all source files under project directory, it also fit D programming language packages design, however, sometimes we have some files existed in project but we don't want to load, compile and link, some files we don't want to copy many times in different projects, so I change the project struct to record source files....etc informations and add a strange tool --"import all files" to quick load all sources under project directory. Maybe we can make good balance between them, but we need good suggestion about this......
Feb 25 2008
next sibling parent John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
Kuan Hsu wrote:
 John Reimer Wrote:
 
 One thing that keeps me from using most of the available IDE's for D is 
 the (seeming) lack of "directory project" support in them.

 This is what I mean:

 When I open something like Poseidon or Descent (Eclipse), I would love 
 to just jump into a project directory and treat that as a active 
 project.  I don't want to have to go through the pain of creating a new 
 project and importing all the files into it (copying them in the 
 process). This would be handy for quickly moving into a already started 
 project using it's active structure (like dwt or the sample dwt projects).

 So how about this? Is there a simple way just to start a project based 
 on directory alone (the IDE may create some sort of project file in that 
 directory if need be)?  I really wish it was just that simple 
 considering all the projects available on dsource... very few of them 
 contain a ready made project file for any of the D ide's.

 This seemingly minor lack has made me mostly disinterested in using 
 powerful ide's like eclipse/descent or poseidon.  Or perhaps I just 
 don't know how to use them.

 -JJR
At Shawn Liu's original design, poseidon was used "directory project", while project open, it will load all source files under project directory, it also fit D programming language packages design, however, sometimes we have some files existed in project but we don't want to load, compile and link, some files we don't want to copy many times in different projects, so I change the project struct to record source files....etc informations and add a strange tool --"import all files" to quick load all sources under project directory. Maybe we can make good balance between them, but we need good suggestion about this......
Hmm... I will have to try this again to see how it works in poseidon. -JJR
Feb 25 2008
prev sibling parent reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Kuan Hsu wrote:
 John Reimer Wrote:
 
 One thing that keeps me from using most of the available IDE's for D is 
 the (seeming) lack of "directory project" support in them.

 This is what I mean:

 When I open something like Poseidon or Descent (Eclipse), I would love 
 to just jump into a project directory and treat that as a active 
 project.  I don't want to have to go through the pain of creating a new 
 project and importing all the files into it (copying them in the 
 process). This would be handy for quickly moving into a already started 
 project using it's active structure (like dwt or the sample dwt projects).

 So how about this? Is there a simple way just to start a project based 
 on directory alone (the IDE may create some sort of project file in that 
 directory if need be)?  I really wish it was just that simple 
 considering all the projects available on dsource... very few of them 
 contain a ready made project file for any of the D ide's.

 This seemingly minor lack has made me mostly disinterested in using 
 powerful ide's like eclipse/descent or poseidon.  Or perhaps I just 
 don't know how to use them.

 -JJR
At Shawn Liu's original design, poseidon was used "directory project", while project open, it will load all source files under project directory, it also fit D programming language packages design, however, sometimes we have some files existed in project but we don't want to load, compile and link, some files we don't want to copy many times in different projects, so I change the project struct to record source files....etc informations and add a strange tool --"import all files" to quick load all sources under project directory. Maybe we can make good balance between them, but we need good suggestion about this......
Adding all files from a recursive scan of imports would be nice. Then the user specifies just main.d, and the IDE adds all the files imported in one way or another by main.d. --bb
Feb 25 2008
parent reply Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:
 Kuan Hsu wrote:
 John Reimer Wrote:

 One thing that keeps me from using most of the available IDE's for D 
 is the (seeming) lack of "directory project" support in them.

 This is what I mean:

 When I open something like Poseidon or Descent (Eclipse), I would 
 love to just jump into a project directory and treat that as a active 
 project.  I don't want to have to go through the pain of creating a 
 new project and importing all the files into it (copying them in the 
 process). This would be handy for quickly moving into a already 
 started project using it's active structure (like dwt or the sample 
 dwt projects).

 So how about this? Is there a simple way just to start a project 
 based on directory alone (the IDE may create some sort of project 
 file in that directory if need be)?  I really wish it was just that 
 simple considering all the projects available on dsource... very few 
 of them contain a ready made project file for any of the D ide's.

 This seemingly minor lack has made me mostly disinterested in using 
 powerful ide's like eclipse/descent or poseidon.  Or perhaps I just 
 don't know how to use them.

 -JJR
At Shawn Liu's original design, poseidon was used "directory project", while project open, it will load all source files under project directory, it also fit D programming language packages design, however, sometimes we have some files existed in project but we don't want to load, compile and link, some files we don't want to copy many times in different projects, so I change the project struct to record source files....etc informations and add a strange tool --"import all files" to quick load all sources under project directory. Maybe we can make good balance between them, but we need good suggestion about this......
Adding all files from a recursive scan of imports would be nice. Then the user specifies just main.d, and the IDE adds all the files imported in one way or another by main.d. --bb
That's kind of app-specific, though. What about building libraries? What if there's test/whatever code not currently being referenced anywhere but still in use?
Feb 25 2008
parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Robert Fraser wrote:
 Bill Baxter wrote:
 Kuan Hsu wrote:
 John Reimer Wrote:

 One thing that keeps me from using most of the available IDE's for D 
 is the (seeming) lack of "directory project" support in them.

 This is what I mean:

 When I open something like Poseidon or Descent (Eclipse), I would 
 love to just jump into a project directory and treat that as a 
 active project.  I don't want to have to go through the pain of 
 creating a new project and importing all the files into it (copying 
 them in the process). This would be handy for quickly moving into a 
 already started project using it's active structure (like dwt or the 
 sample dwt projects).

 So how about this? Is there a simple way just to start a project 
 based on directory alone (the IDE may create some sort of project 
 file in that directory if need be)?  I really wish it was just that 
 simple considering all the projects available on dsource... very few 
 of them contain a ready made project file for any of the D ide's.

 This seemingly minor lack has made me mostly disinterested in using 
 powerful ide's like eclipse/descent or poseidon.  Or perhaps I just 
 don't know how to use them.

 -JJR
At Shawn Liu's original design, poseidon was used "directory project", while project open, it will load all source files under project directory, it also fit D programming language packages design, however, sometimes we have some files existed in project but we don't want to load, compile and link, some files we don't want to copy many times in different projects, so I change the project struct to record source files....etc informations and add a strange tool --"import all files" to quick load all sources under project directory. Maybe we can make good balance between them, but we need good suggestion about this......
Adding all files from a recursive scan of imports would be nice. Then the user specifies just main.d, and the IDE adds all the files imported in one way or another by main.d. --bb
That's kind of app-specific, though. What about building libraries? What if there's test/whatever code not currently being referenced anywhere but still in use?
It's just another way to specify a list of files to the IDE. I'm not saying it should be the only way to do it. But files in a library do imports too. So you specify the files you think are in the lib, and then have the recursive scanner round out the list with any imports you missed. Also sometimes people make an "all.d" module for libs, too. --bb
Feb 25 2008