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Key: FDT-832
Type: Featurerequest Featurerequest
Status: Confirmed Confirmed
Priority: Minor Minor
Assignee: FDT Team
Reporter: Martin Heidegger
Votes: 0
Watchers: 1
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Show Cross-references between packages (Reference counting Enhancements)

Created: 25/Feb/10 05:29 PM   Updated: 22/Jun/12 06:42 PM
Component/s: Parser
Affects Version/s: FDT 5.0
Fix Version/s: FDT
Security Level: public

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Review Type: Review by Product Owner


 Description  « Hide
I stumbled at a feature which is seemingly easy to implement but of high importance for many developers. As far as I know: no IDE supports it yet:

If you develop in packages you don't want your packages to cross reference to other packages, this is especially critical if you work with different source folders. One referencing to another is okay but as soon as there is a reference back its a terrible problem. This tends to become even more difficult to figure out once its not just for two packages but if package A refers to B, B to C, and C back again to A.

Anyways: I think it would be of huge help if it was possible in typical FDT manner while typing to see as error if you are creating a cross reference.



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Alan K (Deprecated) added a comment - 18/Mar/11 07:41 PM
I don't quite understand, could you provide some screenshots or a quick video on what you're describing?

Martin Heidegger added a comment - 25/Mar/11 02:32 AM
Nice explanation of cross reference warnings/errors.

Martin Heidegger added a comment - 25/Mar/11 04:28 PM
I was told that explanation misses some things:

1) I do not insist on it being an error - A warning is sufficient.
2) Its for making my code better (not a necessary feature, just makes use more fun)
3) It should take account for deep cross referencing ( A references B references C references A)


Alan K (Deprecated) added a comment - 25/Mar/11 08:13 PM
I've updated the title to reflect a larger issue this addresses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting


Alan K (Deprecated) added a comment - 25/Mar/11 08:17 PM
Marin,

Thanks for this. This is a good feature request. I'm going to close this issue and add it to a larger issue of improving FDT's parser:

http://bugs.powerflasher.com/jira/browse/FDT-1920

We have to consolidate ideas otherwise this will get lost.

If you have other ideas, please consolidate them there.


Martin Heidegger added a comment - 29/Nov/11 05:28 AM
It seems like the consolidated bug 1920 doesn't exist anymore.

Alan K (Deprecated) added a comment - 29/Nov/11 03:48 PM
You're right. This was closed but it was reopened. This is still a candidate for an improvement.