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Bug 184141

Summary:	Need an option to keep project settings with external ant build script
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Lachlan Deck <lachlandeck>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Platform-Ant-Inbox <platform-ant-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	achepati67, c_lalyre, Darin_Swanson, lachlandeck, ricky_clarkson
Version:	3.3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Lachlan Deck

2007-04-25 19:54:41 EDT

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #147337 +++

Bug #147337 fixes only part of the problem as far as I can see.

i.e., the other thing that I think that's needed to be rectified is allowing the user to store the project and its settings at the external location (like you can with regular Java projects). e.g., when creating a new Java project you are able to choose an external location for the project. I'm not sure why this option has ever been hidden from creating a Java project from an existing ant build file.

It's nice that you can now link to an external build file - but this still means that the .project, .settings and so forth are stored in the workspace rather than, as is often desired for version control reasons, with the project itself. The settings of the project are useful for someone else being able to check out the project with any or all settings specified for team work kept in tact.

I'm on Mac OS X but I imagine this is an issue for every platform.

Comment 1 Lachlan Deck

2007-04-25 19:57:52 EDT

Just updating the summary of the task.

Comment 2 Darin Swanson

2007-04-25 20:01:53 EDT

*** Bug 184142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Darin Swanson

2007-04-25 20:02:36 EDT

Thank you for the bug report.
This is not planned for 3.3.
Patches appreciated.

Comment 4 Lachlan Deck

2007-04-25 20:18:06 EDT

When you say it's not planed for 3.3 is that just because no one brought the topic up or because there's some technical reason why this couldn't be easily included?

Comment 5 Darin Swanson

2007-04-25 20:34:51 EDT

Simply a matter of time and resources and the timing of the request
I do not have the time to implement and test this change for 3.3.
As well, 3.3 is essentially feature / enhancement complete.

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2020-02-02 10:23:56 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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