[cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature

["James Langley" <jlangley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a question/comment that I would welcome feedback on.  At the
moment, Eclipse/CDT seems to have a slightly strange concept of what the
current project is.  In that it depends on the currently selected item
in the GUI.  This leads to some confusing behaviour, especially when
creating launch configurations, where the project that gets populated
into the project field of most configurations depends on where the focus
was when the configuration was created.  This means that sometimes no
project is considered to be selected at all (for example when the focus
is in the console).  As a personal preference I would prefer to have the
concept of the current project as a user setting, in a similar way to
Visual Studio for example.  But this has some interesting interaction
with the concept of having several launch configurations for the same
project.  It would also affect the behaviour of the Run toolbar button
and menu item.

My question is I suppose twofold:

1) Does anyone else find this to be a nuisance?
2) Does anyone else work around this and have a concept of a current
project?

Hopefully this will spark some interesting debate.

Thanks in advance for any comments,

James Langley
Senior Software Engineer
Altera European Technology Centre