[Lazarus] Clearing a project

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Tue Feb 5 14:46:45 CET 2013


On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:40:44 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:23:25 +0000
> > Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >> [...]
> >> OK. The only thing I was noting was that in a case where the editor has 
> >> two files open one of those has one entry (Unit1 above) while the other 
> >> has two (Unit12, Unit13 above).
> > 
> > No. Every unit in the lpi has a unique filename.
> > 
> > When you come from Linux (case sensitive) to Window (case insensitive)
> > the IDE deletes one. But this is a rare case.
> 
> Understood, but we're back at the situation where a name is 
> distinguished only by whether a symlink's been followed.
> 
>         <Unit12>
>           <Filename Value="../../inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas"/>
> ..
>         <Unit13>
>           <Filename Value="../inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas"/>

These are two different files for the IDE. Don't forget that this is
about the meta data, not the content. The content is stored in the file
itself.
One belongs to the project, one does not.

 
> As previously discussed, that's with 
> /usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles -> /usr/local/src/inifiles
> 
> and with only a ../inifiles path in the project settings.

Mattias





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