[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Sharing workspace settings with a team.

["Eric Clayberg" <clayberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Paul Duffy" <paduffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> I need to configure various workspace settings for my team, then check
them
> into my CVS repo so that they are easily accessible to all team members
> (ideally, they come down when a project is checked out of the repo).

Take a look at the enhanced preference export/import facility that comes
with CodePro...

http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws/docs/
http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws/docs/features/prefs/export_prefs.ht
ml
http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws/docs/features/prefs/import_prefs.ht
ml

This makes it easy to copy workspace preferences in any granularity between
multiple workspaces. It also makes it easy for team leaders and
administrators to set up common sets of preferences for configuring multiple
workspaces.

Key advantages relative to the simple preference import/export mechanism in
base Eclipse are:

o Much better control over the granularity of exported preferences. This
makes it easy, for example, to share just your code formatter preferences
with other team members without forcing them to take the rest of your
preferences as well.

o Better handling of many preferences like classpath variables. The Eclipse
preference exporter exports classpath variables using hard coded paths which
makes them pretty useless when imported into another workspace or on another
machine. The CPS preference exporter will export them in a
workspace-relative format that makes them useable in multiple workspaces and
on multiple developer machines.

o Support for many non-standard preference settings like templates and
working sets. These are stored as XML files in your workspace metadata
directory and are not visible to the Eclipse preference exporter.

-Eric Clayberg
 Sr. Vice President of Product Development
 Instantiations, Inc.
 mailto:cpsws-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 http://www.instantiations.com
 http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws/