add Project And Workspace Management

[kyoobey]

I would like to submit a Sublime Text plugin Project Management for, as the name suggests, managing sublime project and workspace files

[rchl]

I was going to say that https://github.com/randy3k/ProjectManager already exists but you explicitly say that:

This project was inspired by randy3k/ProjectManager

In that case, what makes your package different from the existing one? It would be quite confusing to have two seemingly identical packages that also bear almost the same name.

[kyoobey]

the existing plugin saves all sublime-projects files at a central location, making it difficult to manage all the files. This plugin saves them inside the project folders, and also adds the posibility for multiple workspaces for a single project without making extra sublime-project files

[rchl]

The decision whether to accept it or not is not up to me but if it were for me, I would at least require proper description in the readme that describes why would one want to use this over the other.

Also, while you mention the "extra" features that your package supports, it would be fair to also mention what it doesn't support. I believe that Project Manager is quite a bit more advanced one.

[kyoobey]

thanks for the feedback, i've added some information about the functionality in my readme file

[packagecontrol-bot]

Automated testing result: SUCCESS

Repo link: Project Management

Packages added:
  - Project Management

Processing package "Project Management"
  - All checks passed

[rchl]

One last comment since I still feel weird about adding this one. The reason I feel weird is because the name barely differs from the original Project Manager package so it feels like a bit shady practice of creating a similarly named product or domain to benefit from the popularity of the original.

And it also adds to confusion since there is no clear description of the differences between the two.

[kyoobey]

sorry for the late reply, I was busy with school work

I have changed the plugin name from Project Management to Project And Workspace Management. Hopefully this solves the issue.

[rwols]

I’d go further and suggest to make a pull request with your desired changes in the existing Project Management package.

[kyoobey]

I found an issue in the old plugin repository requesting the same features that i implement. It seems it's not possible to add these functionalities because the old plugin saves the project/workspace files in a centralized location, and my plugin saves them inside the project folder itself.

[rchl]

Can you explain why storing projects in a centralized location is not compatible with switching workspaces?

@randy3k was open to implementing that idea...

[packagecontrol-bot]

Automated testing result: SUCCESS

Repo link: Project And Workspace Management

Packages added:
  - Project And Workspace Management

Processing package "Project And Workspace Management"
  - All checks passed

[kyoobey]

Well, it is not exactly incompatible. Storing the project/workspace files inside each project gives users easy access to the files to save them in version control or create new build systems (like a visual studio solution file). in fact, someone already made a pull request in randy3k's repository, but the code changes were significant and they were unable to merge the pr.

[braver]

I can follow that. Some people like having their project files in one place, but it's just as common to store them in the project root dir. I would recommend really clearly communicating that difference in philosophy, because you're starting with ~60k installs less and it's not necessarily immediately clear why one would use your package over the other options. Other than that, your package looks good so let's ship it.

[jrappen]

@tshrpl Your package is not compatible as stated here with "sublime_text": ">=3000". Please fix your package or fix this here with a new PR and a limit to ST4.

[kyoobey]

Hey thanks for pointing that out, I'm not sure why my package is not compatible with ST3 so for now I'm limiting it to ST4 and opened a pr for the same