Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
I hope this makes it into the next beta release :)
I see expansion of jde-help-docsets as the last remaining
piece required to successfully set up team based portable
project files.
For a multi-person development team, we use environment
variables within project files to abstract away differences in each
individuals machine setup (i.e. JAVA_HOME, TOMCAT_HOME, etc)
without having to rigoursly define a common
directory structure or without having each developer individually
modify the project files to suit their needs.
In the meantime, I know that we can use URLs to point to
shared documentation.
Since I'm on my soap box, I'll also take this opportunity to
thank Paul and all those who have contributed to the JDE.
I have watched it evolve for many years, and I can honestly
say that it is SWEET, and rivals any IDE on the market
today. Very impressive.
Rob.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Sieger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rob Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: Environment variable expansion in jde-help-docsets
> > From: Rob Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 2:33 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Environment variable expansion in jde-help-docsets
> >
> >
> > I have been successful in the use of environment
> > variables in the setting of jde-db-source-directories
> > and jde-global-classpath, but expansion does not
> > appear to occur when I attempt to use an environment
> > variable with jde-help-docsets.
> >
> > Has anyone successfully used this scenario?
>
> Expansion does not occur for jde-help-docsets yet (in fact it only occurs
> for classpath variables, jd-db-source-directories, and jde-run-working
> directory). I'd imagine that next release will fix this.
