[MonoDevelop] Project / Solution Terminology

[Jacob Ilsø Christensen]

I have been looking a bit into these issues and have a question. It seems
that MonoDevelop allows for the user to add a solution to a solution. Should
this be possible? I thought a solution was meant to hold a collection of
projects only.

/Jacob

On 1/20/06, Scott Ellington <scottellington at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:32 +0100, Lluis Sanchez wrote:
> > El vie, 20-01-2006 a las 10:33 -0500, Scott Ellington escribió:
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:02 +0100, Lluis Sanchez wrote:
> > > > That's because the "New solution Window" creates both a solution and
> a
> > > > project. What you select in the list is the project that will be
> > > > included in the solution.
> > >
> > > I guess I don't have any fundamental problem with using the Solution /
> > > Project terminology, but it seems confusing to me that the user is
> asked
> > > to choose a Project template from the "New Solution" dialog.  I would
> > > think that we should have both Solution templates and Project
> templates,
> > > and that both would have their own "New" dialog.
> > >
> > > I think that would go a long in differentiating what we actually mean
> by
> > > Solution and Project.
> >
> > We can have a different dialog for creating a solution, which would make
> > very clear that you are creating a solution and adding a project into
> > it. In fact, we can make adding the project optional with a checkbox. Do
> > you think this would be enough?
> >
> > Lluis.
> >
>
> I think this would be a great start.  Then maybe we can brainstorm about
> Solution Templates.  That is, what sorts of initial setups for solutions
> would be useful to people.  Maybe there are some, maybe not, then we can
> decide if the whole concept is worthwhile.
>
> Scott
>
>
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