Bug 276634

Summary:	Separate folder for project files
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Marvin Fröhlich <eclipse>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	Olivier_Thomann
Version:	3.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Marvin Fröhlich

2009-05-17 17:49:37 EDT

Build ID: I20080617-2000

Steps To Reproduce:
I often work on projects, that are saved to SVN (using subclipse). And many of these projects are worked on by other members of the projects using Netbeans. Netbeans stores its project configuration in its own subfolder. And Eclipse should also do so, so that the project's root folder isn't "contaminated" by all these Eclipse specific files (from a Netbeans point of view). This would not only be fair to the Netbeans folks, but would also be cleaner.

Of cours this doesn't mean a break of backwards compatibility, since Eclipse could simply seach for the project files in the project's root folder first and then in the known subfolder (.eclipseproject for example) or vice versa. Default should be the subfolder.

If a project is once saved using a subfolder, it knows about it.

Marvin

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