Bug 296410 - Make 'cls' the JDT default output folder instead of 'bin'
Summary: Make 'cls' the JDT default output folder instead of 'bin'
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.7 M7   Edit
Assignee: Jay Arthanareeswaran CLA
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Reported: 2009-11-29 05:20 EST by Francis ANDRE CLA
Modified: 2011-04-26 09:27 EDT (History)
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Description Francis ANDRE CLA 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 CLA 2011-04-11 04:31:52 EDT 
Markus, do you think we can do this?
Comment 2 Jay Arthanareeswaran CLA 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 CLA 2011-04-26 09:27:32 EDT 
Verified.
Nothing prevents users to use cls for the output folder and bin for binaries.