[Building Sakai] Out of date Eclipse files

[Anthony Whyte]

I proposed back in April that we delete these files.

http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2009-April/000923.html

It met with no objections but with suggestions that at a minimum:

1) we put documentation in place that describes the change in practice  
and instructs developers on how to regenerate Eclipse metadata files
2) we update the svn config file global-ignores to exclude  
Eclipse .classpath, .project, .settings, etc. files

I later suggested we consider doing this after 2.6.0 is released.   
2.6.0 is released.  We should schedule a date to perform this excision  
in trunk at a minimum and 2.6.x if no one has objections to the  
removal of files from the maintenance branch.

As for 2.6.x as it exists today, I suggest that David or Matt  
regenerate the .classpath files so that they reference K1 1.0.11 as is  
the case in the 2.6.0 branch.  That at least brings them up-to-date so  
while we decide their fate.  If neither has time, I'll be happy to do  
it.

Cheers,

Anthony


On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Matthew Buckett wrote:

> On the 2.6.x branch all the .classpath files seem to point to an old
> kernel version as the version of kernel in /master/pom.xml has been
> incremented but the .classpath files haven't been rebuilt. I know the
> API of the kernel shouldn't change but it means a fresh checkout and
> import into Eclipse has 100s of errors because I don't have the
> earlier kernel in my maven repo.
>
> We have our own version of the kernel (with API changes) so I need to
> rebuild all the .classpath files to point to our local one so it
> doesn't affect us too much, but it is a little messy for people
> wanting to work with a clean 2.6.x
>
> I'd prefer that we didn't have any .project/.classpath/.settings files
> in a standard checkout and the first thing you did after a checkout
> was a "mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true
> -DdownloadJavadocs=true" then import into eclipse. As even if we
> supply .project/.classpath files you still need to run maven first to
> download the dependencies so why not have the maven invocation build
> up to eclipse files as well.
>
> -- 
>  Matthew Buckett
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