[platform-cvs-dev] Re: Partially shared project

[Kaj Kandler <KajKandler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Isn't this a case for .cvsignore?

In general ( to the best of my knowledge) the team architecture does not
include the build tree in the team repository.

And you can always create a project and exclude parts of the tree using
.cvsignore (or .svnignore for that matter).

K<o>
Screencast Wrangler at http://Plan-B-for-OpenOffice.org/

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> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:31:20 +0200
> From: "Eric Noulard" <eric.noulard@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 2007/8/1, Michael Valenta <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Eric,
>>
>> The Eclipse Team architecture requires that projects be shared from the project root. The only workaround I can suggest is to improt the lined folder as a top level project as well. You should then be able to perform CVS operations on the top level project.
> 
> Such a shame this choice is built-into Eclipse Team architecture!
> I will motivate my opinion in the forthcoming lines however
> at first glance do you think Eclipse Team architecture may
> be extended/modified to support partial sharing?
> 
> The need is concrete and simple.
> 
> I'm using CMake (http://www.cmake.org) for several projects
> (at least 2 of them are open source
>   https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tsp and
>   https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/certi)
> 
> CMake is a cross-platform build system generator which may generate
> Makefiles on Unix, MS Visual Project file on Windows, XCode on Mac etc...
> There is an alpha generator for Eclipse CDT
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Eclipse_CDT4_Generator_Development
> there is a growing interest in the CMake community to have
> an Eclipse CDT generator.
> 
> The usual best way to use CMake is to separate the
> SourceTree (which is under version control)
> from the
> BuildTree which is where generated files reside.
> With CMake, generated files are both the usual result of compilation
> AND the target build system files (Makefiles, Project files etc..)
> 
> as an example you may try:
> 
> 0) Install CMake
>    http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
>   (you need CMake from CVS HEAD if you want to test CDT Project File Generator)
> 
> 1) mkdir CMakeTest
> 2) cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/sources/tsp co tsp
> 3) mkdir Build_tsp; cd Build_tsp
> 4) cmake -G"Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" ../tsp
>    (you may try another generator if you do not want to
>     compile the CVS CMake version)
> 
> Then you may "Import an existing project" from Eclipse
> and you should obtain more or less the same project as the
> TSP screenshot on http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Eclipse_CDT4_Generator_Development.
> 
> In the obtained project the CVS handled source tree is
> a LinkRessources and the .project and .cproject are located
> in the BuildTree since they are "generated" files.
> 
> This is the reason I wanted (and in fact exepected) Eclipse to simply scan
> project directories for any existing CVS directory (or whatever administrative
> files of the used Version Control System) and enable Team Menu
> on the concerned folder.
> 
> What is your opinion regarding this "feature request",
> is it acceptable?
> 
> How can I file it to Eclipse Project ?
> Should/May I contribute the feature ?
> If I contribute is there a chance it will reach mainstream Eclipse?
> 

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