[MonoDevelop] Project / Solution Terminology

[Jacob Ilsø Christensen]

On 1/23/06, Lluis Sanchez <lluis at ximian.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Ok, didn't know. :-)


>
> > /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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