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

[David Haines]

+1 to remove

David Haines
CTools Developer
Digital Media Commons
University of Michigan
dlhaines at umich.edu



On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:45 PM, 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 The said files in trunk are wildly out-of-date again so I have  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"/>
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