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Bug 345071

Summary:	Launch configurations lost when copy project
Product:	[Tools] PTP	Reporter:	Daniel Harenberg <dharenberg>
Component:	Photran.Unknown	Assignee:	Photran Inbox <photran-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	com-eclipse-dot-org, dharenberg
Version:	6.0.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Daniel Harenberg

2011-05-08 05:44:41 EDT

Problem: When you copy and paste a project, the launch configurations are lost.

To reproduce: Create a project. Create a new launch configuration by going to Project Properties -> Run/Debug Settings -> New. Then, in the Fortran Projects view, right-click on the project and copy and paste it (giving it a new name). Look at the Run/Debug Settings of the new project to see that the launch configuration is gone.

More Info: 
Since all other project settings are kept, it would be nice to keep this too. It is such settings that make the difference between copying a project and creating a new one (and copying the files). However, I do see the complication that when the launch configuration is copied one-to-one, there would be the wrong name in the field 'Fortran Application' and 'Project'. So these fields (and maybe others) would need to be updated with the new names, which might be cumbersome to implement.

Workaround: of course one can simply create new launch configurations after each copy project.

Because of the easy workaround and the potential complications involved in implementing this, I mark the severity as trivial.

Comment 1 Jeffrey Overbey

2012-03-01 00:39:26 EST

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, the "copy project" behavior is basically out of Photran's control, at least as it's currently implemented; that behavior is handled by the Platform and CDT.  We might be able to hook it and add this behavior, but we don't have the infrastructure in place to do that at the moment.

I'm going to mark this bug WONTFIX for now (I'm triaging bugs for the upcoming Juno release), but I added this to the "wish list" at <http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/Photran/WishList> so we'll keep in it consideration for the future...

Thanks again!