Re: [epf-dev] EPF Install and configuration guide needed

[Peter Haumer <phaumer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kristian.
This is the email list for EPF development.
 Usage questions you should discuss with the community in the newsgroup.
 Feedback, improvement suggestions, as well as contributions are welcome
on this list as well.

This directory is the Eclipse workspace.
 Check out the Eclipse documentation for more details about workspaces.
 In there Eclipse tools stores all your Preference settings, Perspective
layouts etc. (in the ,metadata).  It is also the default for CVS to
checkout files.  Other version control systems like the excellent
ClearCase use different locations. You can use "Checkout as"
to specific a different location if I am not mistaken.  The ini file
sets the initial default for the workspace.  If you want the directory
to be in a different place or use multiple alternative ones then you can
use the -data <path> option when start epfc.  Opening a library
is a different case.  The library can be in any writable location
on your hard disk.  It does not have to be in the workspace and it
does not matter if there are already other libraries present in the workspace.
 When you open the library you will just see that library in the Library
view.  The Navigator view shows you the other libraries as well, but
they should by "closed".  Again this was just CVSs choice
to place a checked out library there. 

Checkout my video in the Getting Started
section on method authoring for example for how to paste from Word.  Generally,
it is recommend to create a filtered html from Word and use a stripper
and html editor to clean up the html to the essentials that you want to
keep. 

Thanks and best regards,
Peter Haumer.

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PETER HAUMER, Dr. rer. nat.
Rational Method Composer | Eclipse Process Framework
Rational Software | IBM Software Group
Tel.: +1 (408) 463-5096
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From:	Kristian Mandrup <kristian.mandrup@xxxxxxx>
To:	epf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:	09/11/2008 00:22
Subject:	[epf-dev] EPF Install and configuration guide needed

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The EPF installation includes a epf.ini file 

-data 
@user.home/EPF/workspace.150 
-defaultlibrary 
epf_practices 

Seems like any EPF installation references/creates a folder $USER_HOME\EPF\workspace.150
(for data?) for its initial configuration and always creates a default
library called /epf_practices. 
What is the function of this data folder? 

If I do a fresh install of EPF in a new place, it will still reference
this folder (unless I clean the epf.ini file!). That was a bit confusing!

I tried to rename the folder it as $USER_HOME\EPF\xxx_workspace.150. Then
when I open my new EPF installation it will create a new clean $USER_HOME\EPF\workspace.150
folder 

I then import a project that I have checked out from CVS and work a bit.
When I look in the /workspace.150 folder I have a /.metadata folder with
a /.plugins folder underneath. Hows do these plugins relate to my installation(s)?
I also have a /Configuration Import Project (7589dc01) folder with a single
.project file !? Does this file relate to my imported libraries/plugins?

If I want to start up on a clean method library project with no use of
the default EPF content, I first mark all the EPF_Practices folders to
my .cvsignore file. 
Is this a good way to do it? 

Important: 
Sometimes when I paste a Word document into EPF rich editor with textual
references to network drive locations (as part of documentation) my /resources
folder gets filled up with all kinds of junk! 
A full CygWin installation and such. One time I ended up with more than
a Gigabyte of junk in my resources folder!!! 
Any way to add a filter on what may get included in a resources folder
(globally, individually)? 
Would be nice with some filepattern inclusion/exclusion rules, perhaps
defaulting to images and common document extensions:
Image: jpg,gif,bmp, png, tiff, ... 
Document: doc, docx, odt, rtf, ppt, xls, pdf, txt, ...
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