Bug 198038

Summary:	[launching] need a way to compare launch configs
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Jeff McAffer <jeffmcaffer>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	baumanbr, caniszczyk, cjdaly, darin.eclipse, eclipse-bugs, jed.anderson, martin.karpisek
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Jeff McAffer

2007-07-26 17:55:32 EDT

I have many differnet launch configs that are largely the same but subtley different.  As the system evolves I need to update these configs and keep them in sync.  This is currently extremely difficult as I have 50 of 187 plugins selected in one and 48/187 in another.  They should be the same ones in both.  Which are different?

We don't have to do anything super fancy but at least for starters getting a copy buffer full of the selected set in a canonical order (with start/level) information would allow me to paste into two files an duse the compare editor.  (btw, this would also be useful for other things).

Comment 1 Brian Bauman

2007-07-27 11:06:24 EDT

Would this be something useful for other launch configurations?  

I could foresee third party organizations adding new launch configurations with lots of configuration data (maybe complex server configurations).  Users of those launch configurations may very well want to compare two launch configs.

If this is the case, maybe we should see what Debug and Compare can do to create some kind of framework others can use to compare configurations.

Comment 2 Chris Aniszczyk

2007-07-27 11:22:46 EDT

cc'ng Darin, the official Debug ninja for comment.

Comment 3 Jeff McAffer

2007-07-27 21:10:03 EDT

yeah, full-blown compare would be cool but the jist of this request is to compare the plugins list.  The rest of the stuff can be compared visually with relative ease.  Comparing the plugin list however is quite challenging.  Note also that I am setting the bar for satisfaction quite low.  Being able to "copy" the list with  some standard formatting would allow me to at least see what was going on and use the text compare facilities.  As you can see, people in this position are really grasping for any help...