Re: [che-dev] Che projects as workspace roots

["Gorkem Ercan" <gorkem.ercan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas are you thinking about making all /projects +1 level folders as 
workspace roots?

Thanks,
Gorkem

On 15 Jul 2019, at 8:23, tmader@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/13427
>
> On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:05 +0200, Sun Tan wrote:
> > Hello Thomas,Could you point us out to what is the problem you are
> > trying to solve?
> >
> >
> > Sun Tan
> > Senior Software Engineer
> > Eclipse Che - CodeReady Workspaces @ Red Hat
> > Paris JUG leader
> >
> > Red Hat Paris
> >
> > sutan@xxxxxxxxxx
> > M: +33621024173
> > @sunsengdavidtan   me
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:35 PM <tmader@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I've been thinking about the approach of mounting projects inside a
> > > Theia workpace as separate roots. First: let's look at what gitpod
> > > does: they seem to open the IDE only once they have cloned the
> > > project. The have removed all workspace-related menu items (no
> > > "open", etc.) Also, if you clone a project on the command line, you
> > > don't get any possibility to add this project to the Theia
> > > workspace.
> > >
> > > So for Che, here's what I would propose:
> > >
> > > 1. Our initial workspace root is a hidden, empty directory.
> > > 2. When we clone a directory via the IDE command (for example, when
> > > cloning as part of the workspace startup), we add the cloned
> > > project as a workspace root
> > > 3. We remove all workspace related  menu items, instead adding "add
> > > folder to workspace" and "remove folder from workspace"
> > >
> > > I think this should give us the behaviour we want. The only
> > > downside I see is that langauge servers may treat multiple
> > > workspace roots differently from having a single workspace
> > > root  with multiple projects. For Java, that shouldn't be a problem
> > > though.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > /Thomas
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