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$workspace_name built-in variable?

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fabrizio.benedetti:

--- Quote from: thomas on July 16, 2008, 08:16:14 pm ---it may make sense to address a file as $PROJECT_DIR/file.ext or $PROJECT_DIR/../src/file.ext or whatever. That's because there is normally a relation between a project file, its location, and the files in a project. You can of course do it differently on purpose, but naturally it is like that.

However, when I think of a variable $WORKSPACE_DIR, what intuitively comes to my mind is "the directory under which all the projects in this workspace are found"

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  I think to PROJECT_DIR and WORKSPACE_DIR with the same semantics: the path part of the project / workspace full path. The idea of "the directory under which all the project files are found" definately makes sense, but it is not necessarily the same as the project / workspace file path: I usually create a C:\Dev\myProject\ dir, and inside of that: C:\Dev\myProject\src\, C:\Dev\myProject\include\, C:\Dev\myProject\project\, the latter being the location for .cbp project files, makefiles, build scripts, todo files, and other stuff. In this scenario, C:\Dev\myProject\project\ could not be interpreted as "the directory under which all the project files are found" - better, PROJECT_TOP_DIR could serve to the purpose, and should be set to C:\Dev\myProject\ (it is automatically generated, is it?)

  I may attempt a suggestion: leave PROJECT_NAME and PROJECT_DIR as they are now, and add WORKSPACE_NAME and WORKSPACE_DIR; also, PROJECT_ROOT could be added, as a user-defined field in the project properties, replacing PROJECT_TOP_DIR. Maybe WORKSPACE_ROOT makes no sense, given projects may be scattered around multiple locations - but having at least one of WORKSPACE_ROOT or WORKSPACE_DIR to me makes sense: in the project files of my "shared components" (please see my earlier reply) I specify additional include paths using that information, so that the shared components can include different configuring headers when used in different workspaces.

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