*** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: [Eric] hide Ui_* in list

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Mon Jan 15 19:50:24 GMT 2007


Am Montag, 15. Januar 2007 12:28 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> On 15.01.07 08:22:12, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:21, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > > Hi again!
> > >
> > > I have a project, with some files (this is fine) and some forms.
> > > Forms generates Ui_ files in project. It would be user-friendly that
> > > user could hide this files.
> > >
> > > I have not used directories in projects/forms, maybe one way to do it
> > > is using directories? (I see a "Expand All Directories" and "Collapse
> > > All Directories" options)
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > The Project Viewer window is there to do more than just show, which
> > files belong to the project. For example, you are using it to manage
> > your files in the version control system, your repository. I suppose
> > everybody is using something like this. Therefore it is not
> > user-friendly to hide any file, because otherwise, it would be excluded
> > from these actions (except you always e.g. commit on the project
> > level).
>
> I disagree, its common to hide "generated" files from the project view
> in modern IDE's. The reason is that those files need not be touched by
> the user. For the python code generated from .ui files I don't see a
> reason to move the files around or to put this into a version control
> system. The only thing where it makes sense to have the project
> management system know about such generated files is when creating a
> tarball or some other package from the project for distribution.

I disagree, It's very useful to examine these generated files, since one can 
learn quite a bit from them, or even reuse parts. I agree, that it isn't 
useful to put them under VC..

> At least an option to hide generated files would be really cool in
> erci4.

A toogle context option would be nice.

> Andreas


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