Inclusion and exclusion of files based on patterns about mono-d HOT 8 OPEN

I just changed the parsing behaviour that it's parsing the entire project base directory now, independent whether a file has been added to the project or not.

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Will this eventually lead to being able to just include all files in a directory recursively, rather than adding them by hand?

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It is possible to add new files automatically - only see the "Main Settings" page - there's a "Search for new files on load" option which can be enabled.

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Hmm, that still requires maintenance in the form of actually opening the project, though, which is what I'd like to avoid. A lot of people prefer writing in editors like Vim, so it'd be nice if they didn't have to do anything for their files to be included inside Mono-D.

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How do you imagine the project system should work then?

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I'm thinking you would specify inclusion and exclusion patterns in the project options, which would be saved to the project file. Then, when loading the file, Mono-D would find all files that pass the inclusion patterns (and don't pass the exclusion ones) and add them to the project (in memory only, though; on disk, the project file should only contain the patterns).

For example, if my project file is located in /foo/bar, and I have a bunch of directories in there, I could just add *.d as an inclusion pattern, and Mono-D would pick up all files matching that in /foo/bar and its sub-directories.

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This had to be done in a more deeper level. Though without creating an extra IDE which uses that method to include files, I think sticking to the current way does it very well already .D

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I guess this request will finally be fulfilled - by creating an extra panel for files to in/exclude when compiling the project aka file white/blacklist. Can't wait to have this implemented :)

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