[buckminster-dev] Re: Problems getting started with Headless Buckminster

["John R. Fallows" <john.fallows@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

After looking at BaseStorage.java, it seems that:

public class BaseResourceStorage extends PlatformObject implements 
IStorage ,IEncodedStreamContentAccessor, IEncodedStorage {

can be replaced by:

public class BaseResourceStorage extends PlatformObject implements 
IEncodedStorage {

collapsing IStorage into its subtype, IEncodedStorage, and removing the 
plugin dependency on org.eclipse.compare from subclipse.core.

IEncodedStorage has both the getContents() and getCharset() methods of 
IEncodedStreamContentAccessor.

There doesn't seem to be any obvious reference in Subclipse UI to the 
storage implementing IEncodedStreamContentAccessor, but maybe there's a 
subtle one. :)

If this change is possible, it would be a great help to Buckminster 
headless SVN using Subclipse.

Kind Regards,
John Fallows
Brane Corporation.

Mark Phippard wrote:
> Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> > OK, I can reproduce this too now. And I found the cause of the
> > problem. I've bumped the reason of
> > org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.core and that plugin depend on the
> > org.eclipse.compare plugin which in turn brings in a whole slew of UI
> > specific plugins. I'm copying this to the svn newsgroup too since I'd
> > like to get their opinion on this.
> >
> > The only workaround I can find for you right now is to copy most of
> > the plugins from an Eclipse IDE installation into your headless
> > installation. The org.eclipse.compare plugin brings in the
> > org.eclipse.ui.ide and the org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor which
> > in turn brings most other UI specific plugins in with them.
> >
> > Subclipse has a org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui component too.
> > Perhaps it would be better if they moved the dependency to
> > org.eclipse.compare into that plugin. Right now there's no way to use
> > Subclipse efficiently in a headless environment.
>
> It looks like the dependency exists so that our BaseResourceStorage
> class can implement the
> org.eclipse.compare.IEncodedStreamContentAccessor interface.  The
> annotation for this change says it was so that we could properly set
> the encoding on files when doing compares from the Synch view.
>
> Mark


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