Hi, John Arthorne schrieb: > > Eike Stepper wrote on 09/14/2009 10:44:49 AM: >> I always felt that between the global workspace preferences and the >> per-project settings there's missing something that makes it easier >> for teams to have consistent settings in their (possibly vast >> numbers of) IProjects without affecting other teams or being >> affected by other teams. My first thought was a new preference >> scope, but the storage and management should be *inside* one >> IProject so that it is controlled by CVS (or whatever). My second >> (and current) thought is a third radio button in the project >> settings like "use settings from other project". This way a team >> could set up one IProject (or severals) with the settings for all >> (or some)of the other IProjects and maintenance of these settings >> would be way easier. What do you think? > > There have been discussions about this for years, including at least one > past plan item. I think everyone agrees something is needed to help with > this, but nobody has found the time to work on it. Maybe we could stop > working on e4 and fix that instead ;) Meanwhile, I know some teams just > copy/paste the preference files into the .settings directory of each > project to share them. I've even heard of people writing scripts to > automate it to keep a set of projects in sync. The most recent bug I > could find on this topic is: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=194414.
Well with SVN I simply do it using a svn:external tag - linking in a generic settings folder but CVS doesn't support soemthing like this :-( Tom -- B e s t S o l u t i o n . a t EDV Systemhaus GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom schindl geschaeftsfuehrer/CEO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eduard-bodem-gasse 5/1 A-6020 innsbruck phone ++43 512 935834 _______________________________________________ e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev
