Jorg,
Well, let the user run this goal himself. Only then all dependencies are downloaded and present. Otherwise you provide a lot of Eclipse project and most of them will claim missing dependencies. I beg this would be much more frustrating ..
You are right, if the very first thing the user does is import into Eclipse, then the JARs will not be in the Maven repo.
But two ways are:
- Don't include .classpath/.project - maven multiproject:install (this downloads dependencies) - maven -Dgoal=eclipse multiproject:goal <== * See my notes below - IDE import
Or,
- Include .classpath/.project (maintained by Excalibur committers who are Eclipse users, like me)
- maven multiproject:install (this downloads dependencies)
- IDE import
* Seems like just one measly little step, doesn't it? So, why am I whining? The problem is that this step doesn't work correctly because of how some of the projects with api/impl splits are setup. We need to fix this, as Aaron mentioned. Hopefully, that in itself will go a long way in solving my issue. Without this working, the user is forced to go through each individual directory and use the Maven Eclipse plugin, To make matters worse, this needs to be done in dependency order. In total, this is a very frustrating process, even for me who is at least familiar with the dependencies. If we are trying to lower the barrier for Excalibur use/adoption, we must make this easier.
Also, checking out a project from SVN can be made to directly setup a project in Eclipse. With this two-step process, the experience is not as nice.
I just saw Eric's note about Eclipse versus Idea (and Jorg's point about not having dependencies in the repo to start with applies to Idea as well). The *reverse* is currently true, we have Idea support files in the repo., but not the Eclipse ones. BTW, I am not suggesting in the least taking the Idea files out, why spoil a good thing for them. But, I am asking, why all the problems being mentioned for Eclipse aren't also true of Idea?
Shash
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