Re: Configuring identical Eclipse/WOLips settings on multiple computers

From: Dov Rosenberg (drosenber..nquira.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 16:50:51 EDT

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    Can someone post the project configuration for Wonder (ideally an export or
    something) - we were talking of setting up our own but have been too lazy to
    go thru a bazillon settings.

    Thanks in advance

    Dov Rosenberg

    On 4/21/08 2:58 PM, "Mike Schrag" <mschra..dimension.com> wrote:

    >> I'm not impressed with Eclipse' support for multiple developers
    >> sharing the same workspace and/or project settings.
    > As you said above, .settings is per-project and is actually intended
    > to be committed to version control. For instance, in Wonder, we
    > commit the coding style preferences so that everyone gets the same
    > style settings for reformatting, etc.
    >
    > For workspace settings, you should NOT copy the .metadata folder to
    > multiple people -- it's going to cause all sorts of strange problems.
    > The metadata folder is not just workspace settings, but also things
    > like local revision history, etc. The proper way to do this is to
    > File=>Export=>Preferences and File=>Import=>Preferences. Any failings
    > in this procedure are most likely WOLips-specific and you should log
    > bugs for it.
    >
    > You can also export Team Project Sets (I think is what they're called)
    > if you want to share a set of predefined project checkouts.
    >
    > ms
    >



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