I linked the files at first, but that modifies the original .classpath
files. I didn't feel comfortable with that. The current files that
have been checked in came from the Eclipse project files that were
imported through IDEA. I however did have to fine-tune all the things
I mentioned. Still very nice that the dep structure has been
preserved.

On 1/11/08, Jim Bethancourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You should be able to create a new IntelliJ project using the Eclipse
> project files, and even link the IntelliJ modules to the Eclipse project
> files, so if one changes ,the other will change as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 1:54 PM, Geert Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> >
> > > - Cross project dependencies --I don't know enough about IDEA structures
> > > to know if this is a problem, but the eclipse projects mirror exactly
> the
> > > dependency constraints defined/enforced by tcbuild (more specifically
> > > modules.def.yml). It'd be nice if this isn't lost for those working in
> > > IDEA
> >
> > This has been taken over exactly as in eclipse, all the inter-projects
> > dependencies are intact.
> >
> >
> > > - Formatting and import organization -- probably the least important
> > > issue, but can cause lots of useless churn in source control if things
> > > aren't well unified.
> >
> > I spent some time on this and got them very close to Eclipse. I
> > formatted several of my files in both IDEs and there were only very
> > minor differences (that I sadly couldn't work away). The imports order
> > should be the same, however there is one weird behavior in Eclipse
> > when imports are not covered by the package order in the settings. It
> > seems that it orders them alphabetically and case-sensitively, so EDU.
> > < java. < junit. IDEA lets you set a single location for the non
> > specified packaged, and I set that at the bottom. So, the EDU packages
> > are currently placed differently. However, now that I think of it, I
> > could easily add those to the package settings in IDEA to locate it
> > before java., there shouldn't be many other caps packages.
> >
> >
> > > - Errors/warnings -- At best as we can, these should unified. The
> biggest
> > > issue I see is that an eclipse guy makes a change that is considered an
> > > error on the IDEA side (or vice versa). It would be very unfortunate if
> > > something like this led us to use some lowest common denominator.
> >
> > The warnings are drastically different, which is good actually since
> > IDEA finds other interesting things. Didn't get any errors.
> >
> >
> > > - JDK API visibility and compile target settings -- 1.4 modules (most of
> > > them are) get compiled against the 1.4 rt.jar and produce target 1.4
> > > classes.
> >
> > Yeah, I fine-tuned that too, should be correct for all the projects.
> >
> >
> > > It might be worth evolving the eclipsegen thing I wrote a while back to
> > > automagically generate the idea files from modules.def.yml and the ivy
> > > dependency information.
> >
> > I agree :-)
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Geert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:tc-dev-
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Harris
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:32 AM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: [tc-dev] IDEA project file and modules for TC
> > > >
> > > > I don't see why not as long as they can coexist nicely.
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Geert Bevin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I finally got more than fed up with Eclipse (sorry Eugene, nothing
> > > > > personal) and decided to see how easy it was with IDEA 7 to migrate
> to
> > > > > an IDEA setup. Seems it's very easy because you can create a new
> IDEA
> > > > > project from an existing Eclipse workspace. After that I did still
> > > > > need to tweak language levels and code formatting, but I have this
> > > > > working now for IDEA 7. Since Jonas got us all at Terracotta a free
> > > > > license, I was wondering if you think that I should commit the
> project
> > > > > files. They all live in a dedicated directory that I've placed at
> > > > > /code/base/idea
> > > > >
> > > > > What do you think?
> > > > >
> > > > > Geert
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Geert Bevin
> > > > > Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org
> > > > > Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com
> > > > > RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org
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