Agree with all that, plus the fact that you need to install maven and check-out using the command line. If we had .project files, people could check-out the projects they want "directly into Eclipse" and work with them without ever needing mvn.
Frank. "kelvin goodson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/14/2007 04:56:40 AM: > There's pain in the process, not huge, but irritating > > first off there's the definition of the M2_REPO variable, not a huge > problem, especially if you stick to just one workspace. I tend to create > workspaces as and when I need them, and I can't see how to make my variable > definition cross multiple workspaces. > > Next, and probably more significant is removing the binary dependencies and > setting up inter project dependencies. After the maven eclipse:eclipse > command for example, the tools project depends on the binary artifacts > generated from the maven build of the impl, lib and api projects . What > most developers are going to want is inter project dependencies. So there's > quite a bit of manual deletion of jars from the class path entries, then, > you might want for example the lib project to expose the api projects > interface, etc. etc. > > I'm quite well practised at setting this up, but its still a 5 minute job. > > Regards, Kelvin. > > On 14/06/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 6/14/07, Frank Budinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I remember about a year ago discussing whether or not it is > > > acceptable/appropriate to check-in IDE specific files (e.g., Eclipse > > > .project files) into svn, and we decided to not do it. Does anyone > > > remember if this was really an Apache policy, or just a decision we made > > > for Tuscany? If the latter, I wonder if we should reconsider. > > Personally, > > > I think it would be very convenient if we had the Eclipse .project and > > > .classfile in the projects, so that people could just check out Tuscany > > > projects directly into Eclipse. For people not using Eclipse, having > > these > > > superfluous files around really doesn't seem like a big deal. I also > > > wouldn't mind if someone wants to check-in other IDE (e.g. IDEA) files > > > that Eclipse users (like me) would just ignore. > > > > > > What do others think about this? > > > > > > AFAIK there's no 'rule' that says this must not be done. However no other > > Apache (or non-Apache) project that i can think of does this so it would > > be > > unusual and that makes me wonder why. > > > > Is it just the extra "mvn -Pelcipse eclipse:eclipse" thats the problem or > > is > > there something else about it thats a pain? (Also we may be able to get > > rid > > of the '-Peclipse' bit now if that would make it easier to bare? > > > > ...ant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
