Bug 296410

Summary:	Make 'cls' the JDT default output folder instead of 'bin'
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Francis ANDRE <francis.andre.kampbell>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Jay Arthanareeswaran <jarthana>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	amj87.iitr, jarthana, markus.kell.r, Olivier_Thomann, remy.suen
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	3.7 M7
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Francis ANDRE

2009-11-29 05:20:55 EST

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: M20080221-1800

Hi

In a non Java environment, bin is commonly the directory where most of people is putting executables, dll, shell scriptts, etc... When using both Java/Eclipse and other technologies like C++ to produce executable, there is an high risk that the bin folder be erased if one forgets to change the output folder of Eclipse. Thus I am proposing you to make 'cls' the default output folder of Eclipse JDT so that this kind of mistake be avoided.

Rgds

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2011-04-11 04:31:52 EDT

Markus, do you think we can do this?

Comment 2 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2011-04-12 02:36:22 EDT

It's possible that one might end up with a deleted bin folder. But the circumstance is very rare, I would say. Besides, we might break many more clients if we do that. Sorry but I have to close this as WONTFIX.

Comment 3 Olivier Thomann

2011-04-26 09:27:32 EDT

Verified.
Nothing prevents users to use cls for the output folder and bin for binaries.