[Installbase-devel] Adding files and directories

[Damon C. <da...@yo...>]

    Let me get some opinions here.  How do you think adding files and
directories should work?  I'm starting to re-think the current way.

    Currently, adding a directory recursively adds all of its files
either in newly-created file groups or a single file group.  I'm thinking
of just letting the directory exist in the file group and recursively
packing all of its files at build time.

    What I mean is, you drop a directory, and it just adds the directory
to the file group instead of all the files.  Then, you'll be able to dig
down into the directory through the tree and check or uncheck which files
you want to add to the install.

    Any new file found in a directory would be checked by default unless
it were explicitly unchecked.  I think there would also be a way to
specify that files that match a list of patterns would also be unchecked
by default.

    Any ideas?  Do you like the way it is now?  The trade off is that by
only adding a single directory, it would just drop without having to run
through the entire directory.  Also, loading projects with large amounts
of files would no longer be an issue.  It would just load the one directory
without having to recurse for all the files.

    What do you think?

Damon