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I wanted to give you some insights of the way some of our developers work when including sessions in big ADTF projects . Maybe it could be a useful information for you:

When including external sessions (each of them stored as a separate conan package) some developers do it in a way, in which they overwrite the project file of the main project, including the sessions that need to be imported. That way all the "included" sessions are listed in the configuration editor beside the main session and they can be view and edited there.

The only contra of this approach is that when we change something, the change is made on the conan local cache and that could generate problems to other configuarations using the same (modified) session.

Suggestion from another developer: Modify the conan adtf generator so, that it can handle the inclusion of sessions in the same way as it does with modules (but as mentioned above in order to have white boxes instead black boxes.)

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thanks for the input.

When including external sessions (each of them stored as a separate conan package) some developers do it in a way, in which they overwrite the project file of the main project, including the sessions that need to be imported. That way all the "included" sessions are listed in the configuration editor beside the main session and they can be view and edited there.

Currently the only way when you want to view or edit sessions.

The only contra of this approach is that when we change something, the change is made on the conan local cache and that could generate problems to other configuarations using the same (modified) session.

Yes, that is always not good at all to edit the conan cache.

Suggestion from another developer: Modify the conan adtf generator so, that it can handle the inclusion of sessions in the same way as it does with modules (but as mentioned above in order to have white boxes instead black boxes.)

You have to differ, because the main issue is that the CE has to deal with included sessions as white boxes.
Nevertheless you also edit the conan cache in this case...

That's why our focus for the current PI is to enhance the CE to deal with Sessions without projects as well.
On this base, we make a PoC to enhance the CE to deal with several sessions in one instance (no matter if included or not).
This gives us the chance, to open and edit included graphs from sessions as well in one instance.

But as said, if your sessions come along in conan cache, you always working on that.