Descent project file organization

Ary Borenszweig ary at esperanto.org.ar
Thu Nov 20 18:04:59 PST 2008


Ary Borenszweig escribió:
> If you don't want to move your files and keep them where they are, 
> create a new D project and in the first page of the wizard select "from 
> existing source" and type or select the folder where your files are. 
> That will 

~ add ~

two files in that directory: .project and .classpath. But
> that's it. I hope those don't bother you. :-)
> 
> The "Link source" option efectively links everything under the selected 
> folder, you can't just link a particular file, sorry.
> 
> Bill Baxter escribió:
>> I think I figured out the answer to my last question about installing 
>> Descent.
>> It seems I can just copy the plugins and features directories from the
>> Descent .zip over top the ones in in the Eclipse folder.
>>
>> The next question is about file organization.
>>
>> I'm thinking it might be nice to Descent as an alternate way to edit
>> and look at my D source code.
>> But I don't want descent to "own" the files.
>> So basically I would just like to tell Descent which files are part of
>> the project, but leave the files where they are.
>> The first thing I tried for adding a file to a project made a separate
>> copy of the file in my Workspace directory.  Not what I want.
>> The second thing I tried was the "Link source" option under the Build
>> Path menu.  But that added *everything* in the directory into the
>> project, not just the relevant D stuff.  Plus the same dir contains 3
>> different files with a 'main'.
>>
>> Is there some way to just add a soft reference to specific files to a 
>> project?
>>
>> With Visual Studio I just say "add existing file" and it puts a link
>> to that source file into the project.  It doesn't move or copy
>> anything, it just makes a link to that one specific file.  That's the
>> kind of behavior I'm after.
>>
>> --bb


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