[wingide-users] Project directories are too smart

[Mike Shepanski]

A workaround I setup today is to create a bunch of symlinks in a 'Project'
directory on disk.  This allowed me to get a nice top-level view of only the
directories I want to see.  I wrote a generic little Python script that will
do it for me, maybe someone else can fine it useful as well.
----------
import os
TOPLEVELDIRS = {
    "top_level_dir1":       "/dir1/acls",
    "top_level_dir2":       "/dir2/foobar",
}


class ProjectBuilder:

    def createProject(self):
        self.removeSymlinks()
        self.createSymlinks()

    def removeSymlinks(self):
        """ Delete all Symlinks in the current directory. """
        for filename in os.listdir("."):
            if os.path.islink(filename):
                os.remove(filename)

    def createSymlinks(self):
        """ Create the new Project Symlinks. """
        for filename, linkpath in TOPLEVELDIRS.iteritems():
            os.symlink(linkpath, filename)


if (__name__ == "__main__"):
    builder = ProjectBuilder()
    builder.createProject()
----------



On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Wingware Support <support at wingware.com>
wrote:

> Mike Shepanski wrote:
>
>> What I want is for project and source to be top level directories, thats
>> where my files are.  However, Wing creates a single tree stemming from /apps
>> because its the lowest common folder.  This forces me to dig deep down into
>> the trees, very slow and unproductive.
>>
>
> Hmm, this is a good idea and I'll see if we can implement it by making each
> directory added a separate top level item.  Currently you might try using
> the view as flattened tree option or saving your project file to a different
> location.
>
> The location of the project file is significant because Wing treats the
> directory that it is in as the primary directory and shows paths as relative
> to it.  We do want to allow users to specify another primary directory in
> the future so the project file does not need to be in it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
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