The best implementation I've seen of the "dependent projects" idea is in Metrowerks CodeWarrior. However I imagine this is a bigger chunk of work than IntelliJ wants right now, and it does overlap quite a bit with what people now use ANT to do.
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Abney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eap-list] multi project support My $0.02: $0.01 : Eclipse has the concept of "dependent projects" built in. That is one of its best features. I like almost everything about the way they do it. $0.02 : I missed the beginning of this thread, but wouldn't this be better discussed on the features list? ~Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Svinth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [Eap-list] multi project support > I agree that projects are defined for a reason. But I would like to be able > to use refactoring and find usage across projects. That is very handing when > doing framework projects, where you have the framework in one project and > one or more dependent works in other projects. > > /michael > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christian Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 5:11 PM > Subject: RE: [Eap-list] multi project support > > > > > > > > My preference is to separate the projects, i.e. not mix files from several > projects in one view. The projects are not configured to be separate > projects without a reason. I could, however, really make use of the ability > to _quickly_ swap between projects (i.e. the projects views) to be able to > edit them (separately). > > > > Our company develop several interacting applications. Each application is > a seperate project and when altering the communication interface of one > application, you have to update other applications/plugins as well. Each > application is built upon a common frame work and it would be great to keep > that in a seperate project (yet still quickly accessible). > > > > /Christian > > > > > > > part of the benefit, though, of multi project is that you > > > could interact > > > between the two projects without having to switch.. > > > > > > I know it's a bit harder to conceptualize (implement) but it would be > > > cool if we could edit two source files from two different projects in > > > one IDEA instance. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Eap-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
