Re: [platform-core-dev] User Settings proposed solution document

["Michael Valenta" <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel,

Here are the answers to your questions

1) The shared project settigns can be
automatically picked up because they will live in a project so there will
be a delta generated if the contents change.

2) There will be UI that supports the
configuration of where a setting lives. I agree that it would be benefitial
to have the same update mechanism for both project and platform settings.
However, platform settings cannot have automatic updates since they do
not live in a project. As a user, I would prefer to  have automatic
update when possible so the proposal is to support this for shared project
settings. For platform settings, the plan is to provide a sync mechanism
(similar to Refresh Local).

3) I have heard different stories on
this. The bottom line is that we are not running on 1.4 now and we don't
know when the switch will occur. So, either we start now on 1.3 or wait
for the switch to be thrown on 1.4. The plan is to start on 1.3 in a fashion
that can easily be converted to 1.4 when the swith does occur.

Michael

Daniel Megert/Zurich/IBM@IBMCH Sent by: platform-core-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 15/08/2003 04:17 AM Please respond to platform-core-dev

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After reading through the paper I have the following questions and
concerns:

- the document states that changes made to shared project settings will
be
loaded automatically because the settings will be in contained in the
workspace in one or more IFile(s). How will the automatic update be
achieved? Normally a refresh is either initiated by the user or by the
optional auto-refresh plug-in. Will you add a background job that refreshes
the files?

- how will platform settings be applied to the workspace? Will there be
a
UI that allows me to reject such settings? I think from user perspective
both platform and shared project settings are both shared settings and
should behave more or less the same i.e. update process and UI should be
very similar.

- the JDK level as stated in the 3.0 plan is clearly JDK level 1.4
therefore the statement "...we cannot depend on 1.4 API..." is
not correct.
The design decision should not be impaired just to be 1.3 compatible.


Dani


                    
                     
                     
          
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The next document describing a proposed solution has been posted at the
following URL:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm-home/docs/online/team3.0/settings_solution.html


If you have feedback, either annotate the bug report (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36965) or post on the
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