Re: [anjuta-devel] Fwd: Re: Another patch

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi,

Le 06/02/2011 20:34, Abderrahim Kitouni a écrit :
> I think it would be useful for such "read-only" project backends to have
> an easy way to edit the project files. For example, a item in the
> context menu and/or project menu that opens the correct makefile near
> the line where the selected node is defined. What do you think? would it
> be too difficult to implement?

It's not very easy to implement because all the graphical part is done 
in the project manager, there is nothing plan in the project manager to 
do such thing and I would like to avoid any graphical code in the backend.

The current backend supports only one makefile in the project directory, 
so it's not very difficult to find it.

My goal is to allow changing the makefile when adding/removing source 
and editing properties without opening the makefile in a text editor. I 
don't think it's useful to provide this intermediate step.

Editing the makefile directly is still supported, could have some syntax 
highlight and is still necessary for complex cases. But I think that for 
simple cases, it shouldn't be necessary to know how a makefile is working.

The makefile backend is working like the autotools backend. It parses 
the makefile and keep a syntax tree where you can make changes and save 
it back in the file. So it's not that difficult to support the same 
functions than with autotools but I have no time to do it for the coming 
release. Perhaps for the next one, but I don't know if the makefile 
backend is often used.


Regards,

Sébastien