Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio component directory structure

[Martin Braun]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Martin Braun <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>     I'd like to point out a disadvantage to get a discussion going:
>     While you're developing, this might be an inconvenience because the
>     files are physically separated. Most IDEs/editors have many features
>     such as tagging, switching from headers to sources and vice versa, 'go
>     to file at cursor' commands etc. If half of the files are somewhere
>     else, one has to set up the editor specifically for this dir structure
>     to do all of this.
> 
> 
> It's a logical separation that a lot of projects use. I know that I'm a bit
> biased because my "IDE" is Emacs, but I don't recall having project files in
> different directories was a problem. Way back when I developed in Windows and
> used Visual Studio, this wasn't an issue, but that could have been due to the
> project file that VS kept.
> 
> 
> We haven't made it part of our official standard, but talking with both
> Johnathan and Josh last week about it, I was thinking that we would. I'm not
> sure that your argument here has quite convinced me that it'll be a problem.

To be honest,

after re-reading this, I'm not even convinced myself.
Sometimes I just like to argue :)

Martin


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