Paul,
I just want to make sure I understand the correct intended use of
prj.el files: In the user guide, it says that "If <JDE> cannot find a
project file in the source file directory, it searches up the
directory tree until it finds a project file or reaches the root of
the directory tree."
This implies to me that JDE stops looking when it finds the first
project file in the tree above. However, in other email, I recall
you talking about "project hierarchies". Also, in other software,
projects can be nested (though this doesn't work well with debugging
in Cafe, for example).
So, can/should projects be nested?
Thanks in advance, -Chuck
P.S. You also mentioned in recent email that you were going to work on
a "project management" system next. If this is going to include a
make-like facility, you may be interested to looking Dick Waters'
BUILD system, which is written in Common Lisp and has a much more
rational model than Make:
Waters R.C., ``Automated Software Management Based on Reference
Models,'' Software---Practice & Experience, 19(10):931--955,
October 1989.
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