[Gambas-user] Project templates

[Tobias Boege]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, adamnt42 at ...626... wrote:
> > Project templates are just normal projects that are stored:
> > 
> > - In '/usr/share/gambas3/template' : they are the default templates 
> > provided with the Gambas sources. (Don't forget to issue a ./reconf && 
> > ./configure -C if you compile from /trunk).
> 
> So, I presume that I cannot "localize" the default templates as they will be replaced on a new make install?
> 

That's a point. I haven't checked out templates yet but maybe it would be
easy to make user templates override default templates like classes do in
the interpreter's global symbol table: if a user template has the same name
as a default template, the user files override the default...

I'd guess it suffices to do the overriding on a file basis. By using a
Collection indexed with relative paths of the files, this should be really
easy. If we do this, we would also have the gears ready to implement
template dependencies / inheritance.

OTOH, would it bother you so much to prefix your user templates with "PH" or
something? :-)

> > 
> > - In '~/.local/share/gambas3/template' : they are templates defined by 
> > the user. To define a custom template, just save a project there.
> 
> Ah, yes but..
> There are more than one of us here. Custom templates would suit us better if they were stored in a shared directory. Is there any chance of this in the (near) future? If not I will see if I can hack our local IDE to suit.
> 

Before you hack, you could maybe solve your problem by symlinking all your
template directories to some globally accessible location?

Regards,
Tobi

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