Cool! The goal is to make this project accessible to as many developers as possible so pre-baking multiple IDE options is a great idea.
a On Sep 30, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > Hey Martin, > > Yeah I could potentially do one for Eclipse it just is a .project file and a > .classpath file. > > I'll investigate it :) > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Sep 30, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > >> Le 01/10/12 00:06, Adam Estrada a écrit : >>> I am all for this! I use Eclipse and sometimes getting the project set up >>> from pure Maven is a real pain. What do you suggest the best path to >>> implement this is for NetBeans, Eclipse, Idea, etc? Are there other >>> projects out there that do this that we can take a look at? >> >> For NetBeans I think that a good path is simply to commit the proposed >> ide-project/NetBeans directory. Users can open this project directly in >> NetBeans without any configuration, provided they have run "mvn install" at >> least once before. We did that for GeoAPI. >> >> For Eclipse and Idea, it would be nice if we could put all their files in >> ide-project/Eclipse and ide-project/Idea directories, but I don't know if >> those IDE allow that. I think that a few years ago, Eclipse projects were >> made of ".classpath" files spread in many source code directories. I don't >> know if it still the case today. I don't know neither how Idea projects are >> structured. We would need advice from Eclipse/Idea users here... >> >> Martin >> >> >>> On Sep 29, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: >>>> One last question: since I work on NetBeans, I have an >>>> "ide-project/NetBeans" directory with NetBeans project configuration >>>> files. This configuration is not specific to my machine; it is designed in >>>> a way that should make it possible to anyone to open it (NetBeans stores >>>> user-specific information in a separated directory called "private"). It >>>> is not a replacement to Maven; actually Maven must be run at least once >>>> before to open the project, because the project refers to some files >>>> produced by Maven. >>>> >>>> While NetBeans can open natively Maven projects, NetBeans projects are >>>> faster to debug and contains information not found in Maven projects, for >>>> example the words added to the spell-checker for the SIS javadoc. Would it >>>> be okay if I commit a clean (user-neutral) "ide-project/NetBeans" >>>> directory, excluding of course the "private" sub-directory? Maybe >>>> something similar could be done in an "ide-project/Eclipse" directory if >>>> someone wish. >> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
