Enable external/imported needs

[eymeric-giraux]

As a user of this awesome plugin,
I want to benefit from the hovering mechanism for external/imported needs,
So that I can more easily link external requirements.

Currently only possible to configure a single needs.json.
Would it perhaps make sense to be also able to configure further needs.json to that end?

[danwos]

Yes, it totally makes sense.
Our use case is a little different, as we want to support multiple doc projects in one mono-repo.
So in the end we also need to register multiple needs.json files.

But getting a needs.json from external is also a great use case.

We are already starting to work on this, but as this feature needs a lot of architecture changes, it will take some time.

[eymeric-giraux]

I know you are not necessarily working on that right now, but still one more thought:
It would make sense actually for external/imported needs just to pick up the json_path or json_url from needs_external_needs in the conf.py...
... from good to great ;-)

[danwos]

Thanks for the additional thoughts.
The multi-project support got already implemented, but it does not take external needs into account.
So this issue is still open.