Gav.... wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 7:33 PM
To: dev@forrest.apache.org
Subject: Re: Eclipse and forrest.
Gav.... wrote:
I downloaded the latest Eclipse all-in-one package [1] that contains
everything we need.
...
1. Workspace, do you point to the forrest trunk as your workspace or
somewhere standalone.
That's up to you. I'll tell you my setup - that works for me.
I have all public source code in:
~/projects
Inside there I have loads of project folders, the forrest ones are:
~/project/forrest-trunk
~/project/forrest-ivy-branch
~/project/apache-forrest-0.8
My eclipse workbench is set at
~/project
I then use "working sets" to narrow down the projects I see at any one
time (see eclipse help docs for that, but if you only have a handful of
projects then you don't need to worry about it).
If you already have the sources checked out into your workbench folder
then simply create a new project in your workbench and give the new
project the same name as the existing folder, i.e. "forrest-trunk".
Eclipse will spot there is already src here and work through an import
wizard with your.
I did point to my working trunk which I use with SVN, I didn't like the fact
that eclipse then created a few more folders of its own inside my forrest
SVN tree, could get messy. I'd rather not have versioned/unversioned stuff
mixed up like that. This was the main reason for this question, thought
I'd messed it up big time.
Your working directory should not be your trunk checkout. If you set it
up the way I suggested where (in my case) ~/project is the working
directory and ~/project/forrest-trunk is the forrest project directory
there is only one eclipse specific file to be created (.project) and
you'll find this is already in svn:ignore
The confusing thing for me then is, how do I work on trunk and debug it and
update it etc whilst the workspace is pointing somewhere else, or is this a
RTFM concidering I only installed it today? (I'm impatient, but that's
hardly your problem). Or maybe, I do need this mixture of svn trunk and
eclipse ?
The eclipse workspace does not map to each project. The workspace is a
collection of all projects you want to work with in eclipse. This is
getting off topic for this list, if you need to know more about the
specifics of eclipse workspaces see the eclipse docs. If you want to
know more about how I work with Eclipse and Forrest I'll expand further,
but I already told you my set up and don't really know what else to tell
you at this stage.
With respect to debugging, see Chris' reply for one option, or you can
do what I do:
start forrest in debug mode (see our faq)
use the eclipse debugger by connecting to the running instance of
forrest (I think there is a faq entry for that too, but I may be
mistaken, more info if you need it)
Ross
