Add support for Project Groups

Original Reporter info from Mantis: PascalDragon @PascalDragon

• Reporter name: Sven Barth

Description:

It would be nice to have support for project groups in Lazarus (multiple projects open at once). This way one could open a project that contains e.g. a server and a client application and easily compile both from within the same IDE and without the need to open the corresponding other project. Another example are projects that consist of a application and some libraries.

Also package projects should be able to be added to a group project so that one can work on a huge project that contains normal projects and packages. This could reduce the need to skip through package windows when the added/included files of a package are listed inside the group's project inspector.

Additional information:

Take a look at recent Delphi IDEs (2005+) to see a nice (but not perfect) example.

Note: Depending on how stable/backwards compatible you want to keep the IDE interface / the project file layout after 1.0, you might think about adding this feature before that release.

Mantis conversion info:

• Mantis ID: 18518
• Version: 0.9.31 (SVN)
• Monitored by: » PriCoSoft (Stephan Schamberger), » rferriz (Raul Ferriz), » jcchu (JC Chu), » etrusco (Flávio Etrusco), » alexvins (Alexander Shishkin)