[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: workspace setup

[wegener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Wegener)]

Andrew Younge wrote:

> hello,

> i am new to eclipse, and i am a second year Computer Engineering student 
> at Rochester Institute of Technology, and i was hired by my professor to 
> help him get ready for Computer Science 1 class.  its been desided this 
> year that all development will be done with eclipse instead of emacs 
> (yay!).  The only problem i have so far is trying to setup the directories 
> the way my professor wants.  he wants a main CS1 directory, with 3 
> subdirectories: labs, lec, and proj.  from there he wants to be able to 
> have individual projects under each of those directories.  my problem is 
> setting up the workspace so that it will do that.  i tried to make it all 
> under one big project, however i found out that i cannot have a project 
> within a project.  next i tried to just use source folders, however when i 
> went to debug and compile multiple different programs (example: lab1 and 
> lab2), it compiled both of them because they are all under one project.    
>  I would like to be able to have it so that i can have the correct 
> directory setup and still be able to compile and run lab2 without having 
> to compile and run lab1, because if the student doesnt have lab1 working, 
> they can still work on lab2 (basically i need them to be independent of 
> each other).  is there any way this can happen under one workspace?  i 
> apologize if this is a newb question because well, i am new to eclipse 
> myself.  thanks for any help!

First to confirm the directory structure your looking for:
CS1
 - labs
   - lab1
   - lab2
 - lec
   - lab1
   - lab2
 - proj
   - lab1
   - lab2

Is this the desired setup.  Will there be source in each of the labx 
directories or only under certain subdirectories?  If only the labs 
subdirectory will contain source, then you could define lec and proj as 
separate projects.  Each labx directory would also be a project.  

If all of the labx directories will contain source, then you may have to 
either define each as a project.  Alternatively, you could use Source 
Directories as you mentioned.  If a particular lab had problems building, 
the student could remove it from the build path and add it back when they 
planned on working on the project.

If you provide more detail about the directory structure and what will be 
included in each directory, it would probably be easier to come up with a 
solution.