At 10:25 AM 4/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>I just want to make sure I understand the correct intended use of
>prj.el files: In the user guide, it says that "If <JDE> cannot find a
>project file in the source file directory, it searches up the
>directory tree until it finds a project file or reaches the root of
>the directory tree."
>
>This implies to me that JDE stops looking when it finds the first
>project file in the tree above. However, in other email, I recall
>you talking about "project hierarchies". Also, in other software,
I was referring to a new JDE project subsystem that I am planning to develop.
>projects can be nested (though this doesn't work well with debugging
>in Cafe, for example).
>
>So, can/should projects be nested?
>
Not really. What I want, and I think a lot of people want, is inheritance
by a subproject of properties, e.g., classpath, of the parent project. Also
building the parent project would build all the child projects. Also
perhaps multilanguage projects (e.g., Java app with C native methods). Eric
Ludlam has developed a generalized project system, the Emacs Development
Environment. Right now it is C and make oriented and it is not clear to me
whether it can accommodate Java projects. If so, it could serve as the
basis for the future JDE project system.
> Thanks in advance, -Chuck
>
>P.S. You also mentioned in recent email that you were going to work on
>a "project management" system next. If this is going to include a
>make-like facility, you may be interested to looking Dick Waters'
>BUILD system, which is written in Common Lisp and has a much more
>rational model than Make:
>
>Waters R.C., ``Automated Software Management Based on Reference
>Models,'' Software---Practice & Experience, 19(10):931--955,
>October 1989.
>
>The code is available as free-ware. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, I'll look into this.
- Paul
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