Bug 184141 - Need an option to keep project settings with external ant build script
Summary: Need an option to keep project settings with external ant build script
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Ant (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Ant-Inbox CLA
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Whiteboard: stalebug
Keywords: helpwanted
: 184142 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2007-04-25 19:54 EDT by Lachlan Deck CLA
Modified: 2020-02-02 10:23 EST (History)
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Description Lachlan Deck CLA 2007-04-25 19:54:41 EDT
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #147337 +++

Bug #147337 fixes only part of the problem as far as I can see.

i.e., the other thing that I think that's needed to be rectified is allowing the user to store the project and its settings at the external location (like you can with regular Java projects). e.g., when creating a new Java project you are able to choose an external location for the project. I'm not sure why this option has ever been hidden from creating a Java project from an existing ant build file.

It's nice that you can now link to an external build file - but this still means that the .project, .settings and so forth are stored in the workspace rather than, as is often desired for version control reasons, with the project itself. The settings of the project are useful for someone else being able to check out the project with any or all settings specified for team work kept in tact.

I'm on Mac OS X but I imagine this is an issue for every platform.
Comment 1 Lachlan Deck CLA 2007-04-25 19:57:52 EDT
Just updating the summary of the task.
Comment 2 Darin Swanson CLA 2007-04-25 20:01:53 EDT
*** Bug 184142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Darin Swanson CLA 2007-04-25 20:02:36 EDT
Thank you for the bug report.
This is not planned for 3.3.
Patches appreciated.
Comment 4 Lachlan Deck CLA 2007-04-25 20:18:06 EDT
When you say it's not planed for 3.3 is that just because no one brought the topic up or because there's some technical reason why this couldn't be easily included?
Comment 5 Darin Swanson CLA 2007-04-25 20:34:51 EDT
Simply a matter of time and resources and the timing of the request
I do not have the time to implement and test this change for 3.3.
As well, 3.3 is essentially feature / enhancement complete.
Comment 6 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-02-02 10:23:56 EST
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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