Re: IDE

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/15/2015 04:18 PM, Eric Ludlam wrote:

> Any particular project type may or may not care about the build system.
> Some do because they are the build system.  Some do because they look in
> the config files to try to extract some handy nuggets of information.
> Some do because the build system leaves a file behind that can be
> detected as the root of the project.

Then we might as well treat the build-file-as-project-root-marker and 
build-file-as-source-of-build-tasks as two unrelated things, in the API. 
And in certain cases both implementations can delegate to the same code.

> For your example above someone who is familiar with those tools would
> pick the best way to detect a project (maybe by build system like ant,
> or by some other means) and also pick the best way to extract whatever
> data is needed, such as a command to pass to 'compile', and hopefully a
> classpath.  It might be 6 independent types that share a lot of code or
> baseclasses, or maybe one hybrid. I don't think it really matters.

It matters if to *really* add support for a new build tool, the author 
has to add X new project definitions.