Re: [e4-dev] e4, conventions, OSGi, ... - We need to set up rules

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eike Stepper wrote on 09/14/2009 10:44:49 AM:
> I always felt that between the global workspace preferences and the
> per-project settings there's missing something that makes it easier
> for teams to have consistent settings in their (possibly vast 
> numbers of) IProjects without affecting other teams or being 
> affected by other teams. My first thought was a new preference 
> scope, but the storage and management should be *inside* one 
> IProject so that it is controlled by CVS (or whatever). My second
> (and current) thought is a third radio button in the project 
> settings like "use settings from other project". This way
a team 
> could set up one IProject (or severals) with the settings for all
> (or some)of the other IProjects and maintenance of these settings
> would be way easier. What do you think?

There have been discussions about this for years,
including at least one past plan item. I think everyone agrees something
is needed to help with this, but nobody has found the time to work on it.
Maybe we could stop working on e4 and fix that instead ;)  Meanwhile,
I know some teams just copy/paste the preference files into the .settings
directory of each project to share them. I've even heard of people writing
scripts to automate it to keep a set of projects in sync.  The most
recent bug I could find on this topic is: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=194414.

John