[Building Sakai] Eclipse metadata files (reviving an old proposal)

[Ray Davis]

+1 to removing them completely.

In the release notes, I'd recommend pointing to both Maven's 
Eclipse-file-generating plugin:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/

and Eclipse's Maven-wise plugin:

http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/

The latter has greatly improved since the first time I tried it, and 
it's now my preferred way to integrate the tools.

Best,
Ray

On 4/22/2009 10:45 AM, Anthony Whyte wrote:
> Back in Sept 2008 Aaron regenerated the Eclipse metadata files in trunk 
> (.classpath, etc.) by running from the base folder:
> 
> mvn eclipse:clean
> mvn eclipse:eclipse
> 
> The said files in trunk are wildly out-of-date again so I have 
> regenerated them (see example below).  I have done the same for the 
> 2.6.x and 2.6.0 branches since each of these binds to a different kernel 
> artifact.  The metadata files now reflect the latest Kernel (K1) 
> bindings as well other dependencies that have been changed (e.g., trunk 
> commonons-io upgrade from 1.2 to 1.4).
> 
> Aaron also recommended removing these metadata files completely from 
> trunk since tools exist for generating them locally.  I'd like resurrect 
> this proposal and see if the community thinks that removing these files 
> is a good idea.  See the sakai-dev thread for more details of that 
> earlier discussion.
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/Remove-Replace-all-eclipse-files-for-2.6-release--to19690993.html#a19690993 
> 
> 
> If the vote is to stay with the status quo, I should note that I have 
> added this regeneration task to my release management duties; whenever I 
> generate a K1 release I'll refresh the Eclipse metadata files in trunk, 
> the current maintenance branch (e.g., 2.6.x) and any other branches 
> dependent on kernel bindings.
> 
> Trunk developers should perform an svn update to pick up these changes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anth
> 
> 
>  From this (trunk/.../access-impl example):
> 
> <classpath>
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/bundle" 
> including="**/*.properties" excluding="**/*.java"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/java"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="con" 
> path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload/1.1.1/commons-fileupload-1.1.1.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/commons-io/commons-io/1.2/commons-io-1.2.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/logkit/logkit/1.2/logkit-1.2.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/oro/oro/2.0.8/oro-2.0.8.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/sakai-component-manager/1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT/sakai-component-manager-1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/sakai-kernel-api/1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-api-1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/sakai-kernel-util/1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-util-1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool-api"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/javax/servlet/servlet-api/2.4/servlet-api-2.4.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/velocity/velocity/1.3.1/velocity-1.3.1.jar"/>
> </classpath>
> 
> 
> to this:
> 
> <classpath>
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/bundle" 
> including="**/*.properties" excluding="**/*.java"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/java"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="con" 
> path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload/1.1.1/commons-fileupload-1.1.1.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/commons-io/commons-io/1.4/commons-io-1.4.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/logkit/logkit/1.2/logkit-1.2.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/oro/oro/2.0.8/oro-2.0.8.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/sakai-component-manager/1.1-SNAPSHOT/sakai-component-manager-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/sakai-kernel-api/1.1-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-api-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/sakai-kernel-util/1.1-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-util-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"/> 
> 
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool-api"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/javax/servlet/servlet-api/2.4/servlet-api-2.4.jar"/>
>   <classpathentry kind="var" 
> path="M2_REPO/velocity/velocity/1.3.1/velocity-1.3.1.jar"/>
> </classpath>
>