[Lazarus] Project Group support in the IDE

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

> 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.

What improvement of that situation do you expect, when the IDE manages 
the build scripts/projects for you? The IDE has no idea of your 
problems, causing your intensive labour.

As I see it, it won't be much work to add a project group pane/form to 
the IDE, and to invoke the build process for all projects listed there. 
The builds are done by external tools (FPC...) anyway. The really tricky 
part IMO would be the handling of the messages, returned from the 
various build processes.

In the simplest case a click on such a message then should make the IDE 
load the related project, before proceeding with the usual handling of 
such an click. The same handling already were required when a different 
project is selected from a project group (treeview...).

So IMO all this boils down to a *persistent* list of projects and 
related messages, that has to be added to the IDE. Where "persistent" 
means that this list is not affected by loading projects, in detail the 
project build messages should survive. Eventually the messages display 
has to be updated (splitted?) into multiple sections, each related to 
one project in the build group, and updated individually on a 
compile/build of that related project.

DoDi