| Re: Source code management with IDL Workbench [message #57557 is a reply to message #57556] |
Thu, 13 December 2007 10:55   |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Paul van Delst writes:
> I would like to ask some possibly simple/stupid question:
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> 1) Code that I use is typically scattered across several directories, organised in a
> logical (to me at least) manner according to what it does. Does that mean I have to import
> *all* my directories *every* time I want to create a Project?
I'm not sure this question makes sense in terms of
the IDL Workbench. I suspect (because I have similar
problems with "workspace") that your definition of a
"project" and IDL's definition might be different.
You could open these directories as a "series" of projects,
and yes, if you wanted to write a program that made use of
IDL programs in these directories, you would have to do that.
Or, you could just work in the normal way and put these
directories on your path, but not make projects out of them.
And, since you can save the file you are working on to any
place you like, I don't see why you can't just use the Workbench
in *exactly* the way you use it now. (But what would be the
point of it? Might as well use all that RAM you bought to
run the damn thing for something useful.)
I am slowly coming to the belief there is *some* logic in
doing things the Eclipse way. At least I am more open to it
than I was before. I am still wrestling with how to advise
someone to go from what they had before to the new system.
It confounds me at times.
> 2) What is the point of importing versioned code as a "Project"?
I guess I've spent a week working on it so I can manage it
from within IDL. But, frankly, TortoiseSVN is such a nice
application, that I am beginning to wonder why I would bother.
It might be at the end of the day, people DON'T bother.
They just go on using whatever they have been using. I don't
see anything particular wrong with that. (Except, of course,
that I *couldn't* go on using what I was using, because the
Workbench would write the damn file anyway. But, I mean, if you
were using something compatible.) Subversion seems OK to me.
I think it will do what I want it to do. I don't write code
that requires fancy build methods. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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