[MonoDevelop] Project / Solution Terminology

[Lluis Sanchez]

El lun, 23-01-2006 a las 18:06 +0100, Jacob Ilsø Christensen escribió:
> I have been looking a bit into these issues and have a question.

Me too. I'm doing some fixes in the New Project dialog.

>  It seems that MonoDevelop allows for the user to add a solution to a
> solution. Should this be possible?

Of course. Just look at MD's own Solution. It's a tree of solutions and
projects.

>  I thought a solution was meant to hold a collection of projects only.

That's in VS, not in MD/SD.

> 
> /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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