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Bug 190911 - Improve the process of creation a project from existing code
Summary: Improve the process of creation a project from existing code
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: cnd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Project Discovery (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All Other
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Alexander Simon
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Reported: 2010-10-11 14:47 UTC by Alexander Pepin
Modified: 2013-05-19 14:31 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Alexander Pepin 2010-10-11 14:47:05 UTC
This was brought up while Cadence visits.

When new project is created from existent code...
  - 'Working directory' - not clear what does this mean;

  -  Once directory is selected, default is set to 'Automatic'
     configuration and 'Finish' button is active. Nobody reads what is
     written and it is *absolutely* unexpected that IDE starts make
     clean; make all. As it uses wrong make (not clearmake in this
     case), this means that it just removes binaries and user has to
     re-build a project again (which may take a while)..

  -  Another scenario (need to reproduce) - creating project from
     existent sources; Only sources directory is specified; There are
     several binaries in (sub)directories of the specified folder. They
     are built for different platforms; [Looks like] when binaries were
     analyzed, wrong binaries were taken. At lease code assistance was
     configured so that some includes were taken for Linux, while we
     were on Solaris (still linux headers were accessible from it with
     the same path as on original Linux)

  -  When use 'advanced' mode, the last step is to select build result.
     Default filter (elf files) filters-out .so files (while they are
     elf files) - they are not visible in the chooser.

  -  After project creation we always saw a notification with a warning
     that project was created successfully, but there were some
     problems with code assistance. But the information is ambiguous.
     It says:
       (OK sign)      Project was successfully created
       (Not-OK Sign)  There were problems with code-assistance
                      0 out of 36 source files have limited <something>
                      0 out of 15 header files have limited <something>