Re: project properties

[Andrew Hill <andru treshna com>]

Just some things that could be useful when you start creating a project.

Website
Initial version number (and a easy way to increment version numbers)
If it is a library or not. though for large projects you have a mixture 
of libraries
and elf binaries.



Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of designing a preferences page for some of the build
> output properties. I've basically finished the automake build
> implementation in gnome-build and the generic build output view in
> anjuta2. Here's a screenshot to give you an idea how it works/looks:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeroen/screenshots/anjuta2-build.png
>
> Basically, the backend (automake in this case) uses a callback to
> forward/inform the frontend of the build output and any warnings or
> errors that occur during this build. In case of the automake backend, it
> uses a couple of regexs to filter out the warnings & errors. These get
> displayed as "hyperlinks" in the build info view in anjuta2. When you
> click on one of these links, the appropriate file will be opened at the
> specified line. The frontend is totally generic atm. You can just change
> the backend (to a Java build system for example) and it should work
> exactly the same way. You cannot (yet) run a program you just built from
> within anjuta2.
>
> Now, for the colors in the GtkTextView, i've chosen yellow for warnings
> & red for errors atm (and lightgray for the normal output). I'd like to
> make this configurable for users. This is project backend independent
> and should go in anjuta2's settings dialog.
>
> I've also been thinking about implementing a project properties dialog
> (i recall seeing an e-mail from gustavo yesterday asking me about this,
> but i don't have that mail here on my laptop atm).
>
> My question is: which properties do we want in there for the
> automake/conf backend? The following list comes from looking at the
> anjuta(1) preferences and some basic configure.in settings:
>
> 	General
> 		- Project name, version, bugzilla link
> 		- Maintainer mode
> 		- Dependencies (libraries, pkg-config)
> 	Build
> 		- Treat warnings as errors
> 		- Which types of warnings
> 		- Optimization
> 		- Debug symbols
> 	Run
> 		- Profile(s) (for more than 1 run target)
> 			- Target
> 			- Parameters
>
> Can anyone think of any more useful properties? These are meant for an
> initial version of the project properties. It doesn't need to be perfect
> etc. Just so we can implement this and see how it works with the
> existing code etc.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeroen
>