[MonoDevelop] [PATCH] - enable out-of-project files inside of a project

[Chris Morgan]

On 9/12/06, "Andrés G. Aragoneses [ knocte ]" <knocte at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Chris Morgan escribió:
> > In our particular case rather than building dlls for classes we want
> > to include them directly.  This lets us more easily modify and rebuild
> > them without having to have other projects around.  To tell you the
> > truth I never considered adding projects to build things because I've
> > been used to doing things with c/c++ where you end up with all kinds
> > of output files and the like.  Its probably within reason for us to
> > have a project in our common directory and add this project to each of
> > the solutions that need to use those common files.  I still like being
> > able to just add them and refer back to them but I certainly see your
> > point that it could be done using other project files.
>
> This case is very strange and I would advice you the same that Lluis has
> noted. BTW: perhaps we should make for this feature a special
> information message that warned the user about the fact that the linked
> source is not commonly the most elegant solution, and telling him to use
> a shared class library unless he knows what he is doing.
>

Is it all that strange?  Rather than create projects and add them to
svn I can simply link to a file or two and I'm all done :-)

>
> > Also, I looked in the icons directory but I wasn't able to find the
> > icons for the c# files in the treeview.  Once I find those it
> > shouldn't be too bad to create a link version and then I'll look for
> > how to use the link icon for linked files.
>
> Just wondering... Wouldn't the "overlay icons" (instead of normal icons)
> be a better solution for this?
>

Yes it sounds like a better way.  Is there an example in MD that
already uses overlay icons?

Chris