Project Manager about pyscripter HOT 9 CLOSED

Yes indeed this is one of the most significant needs that are not implemented 
yey

You could add for the moment a simple project manager
e.g. a simple xml or text file with the names of the .py files that integrate 
the
project and the name of the main project file if there is one.

Maybe the extension name of this files could be, .psp (pyscripter project) or 
.pyp
(python project)

2joseooma:
The ".psp" extension is already used for Python Server Pages.
See http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/pyapi-psp.html

What do you mean by "project manager"?

I agree with  billiejoex, "project manager" might not be the best name for the 
feature because of its ambiguity, to me this rather sounds as a Role, not a 
Feature.
Project Explorer, or Workspace would probably be more familiar to those who 
have 
used other IDE's.

Note that project management in PyScripter should be usable with version 
control. For
example, when you save a project file, the data in the project file should not 
be
user-specific. For user specific information you should create a second .user 
file
(just like visual studio).

In addition, project management should use relative paths when possible since
absolute paths are never guaranteed to be identical across multiple machines.

I'm probably stating the obvious here, however I just want to make sure this 
feature
isn't taking a turn for the worst. I also see the word "workspace" mentioned 
here
which in every case I've seen doesn't work very well in version control due to 
the
project data files themselves containing inappropriate data.

Examples of things you DON'T want in project files:
- Open Windows
- Caret positions in each window
- Usernames, absolute paths, operating system or machine specific data

Things you DO want in project files:
- Files added to the project (relative paths)
- script (.py) file that is executed when debug is activated

Things you'd put in a user config file (which is also generated along with the
project file):
- Debug settings (command line parameters, etc).
- Open windows, caret positions, etc.

Fixed in version control.

>>Things you DO want in project files:
>>- Files added to the project (relative paths)
>>- script (.py) file that is executed when debug is activated
This is exactly what is saved in the project file:
- Files organised in folders (path can be absolute or relative)
- Run configurations (could be more than one, i.e.  Normal, unittest, client 
server etc.)

What do you mean by "Fixed in version control"? Are you saying that you had to 
make
these changes? Or that the project management already worked the way I had 
described it?

In addition, what do you do about user-specific settings? How do you save those 
(if
at all)?

It means that the Project Explorer has been implemented and will be available 
in the
next version.

User specific settings (open files, etc.) are saved anyway in PyScripter.ini 
which is
located at the user's %APPDATA%\PyScripter directory.