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

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

John Arthorne schrieb:
> 
> 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.

Well with SVN I simply do it using a svn:external tag - linking in a
generic settings folder but CVS doesn't support soemthing like this :-(

Tom


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