[MonoDevelop] Importing project.

George Farris farrisg@mala.bc.ca
Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:59:14 -0700


On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 06:02, Francisco T. Martinez wrote:
> George Farris wrote:
> 
> >Is there any magic to import a project of source files into a
> >monodevelop project?  Basically I have a project with a custom make file
> >and glade, data and src directories.
> >
> >I know I can make a gnome project and then just start adding files but
> >one never knows if there are any additional tips that would help.
> >
> >  
> >
> I am not aware of any facility to do this.  However, one could create or 
> extend existing tools to do a prjx and/or a cmbx from the contents of a 
> given directory.  Obviously, a lot of post user interaction would be 
> require to insure that the correct references are included and 
> conversely exclude .cs or .glade files that where "guessed-in" that 
> should not have been. 
> 
> The question then becomes: Is it worth it?
> 
> If one has over 70 or so source files that all reside in the same 
> directory and are also intended to be used in the resulting project, the 
> answer  there would be a resounding yes.
> 
> On the other hand, if it is not a glade project and it includes only 5 
> source code files and 2 of them are in different directory that is not 
> child to the main project directory...
> 
> Parsing the Makefile would be less than amicable, because they are so 
> "author" styled in structure -- there is too much variance across hand 
> coded Makefiles.
> 
> Let's hear what others have to say on this topic :)
> 
> Paco
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Just to clarify, it is a glade project.

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George Farris	farrisg@mala.bc.ca
Malaspina University-College - Cowichan Campus
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