[Lazarus] Project Group support in the IDE

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Sep 13 14:11:18 CEST 2013



On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2013-09-13 11:56, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>
>> Other "single biggest lacking features" are: docking, android, dyn packages, pkg
>> repository, installer, offline help, ...
>
>
> :) the every growing to-do list.   Sometimes one has to ask why we
> decided to become programmers. :)
>
>
>> No, it is not implemented yet.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
>
>> If you only want one window to easily switch the active project and using that
>> to compile a bunch of projects, then yes, it is easy.
>
> Yup, that's all I want for Project Groups. Being able to quickly switch
> between related projects, do a "build all projects in group" [great for
> release day], re-order projects in the group, and do a "build projects
> from here".
>
> All my projects tend to consist of 4+ executables, and the project I
> work the most on consists of 10+ executables. Doing manual building of
> projects one-by-one is so labour intensive - hence I have many build
> scripts. Maintaining those build scripts is a pain too.

Same here.

At least, having this window would be a very good start. 
The advanced features could follow later.

But then, Mattias knows this already. I bugged him enough about it :(

Michael.




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