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Bug 71128

Summary: [plan item] Large-scale workspaces
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: bogofilter+eclipse.org, cdtdoug, daniel_megert, danrubel, eclipse, gunnar, john.arthorne, john.camelon, nikolaymetchev, thomasf, tjbishop
Version: 3.0Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 3.1 M7   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Jim des Rivieres CLA 2004-07-29 17:50:22 EDT 
Some large customers have workspaces containing several hundred projects. 
Scoped builds (added in 3.0) were a step in the right direction towards making 
these workable. Eclipse needs to provide appropriate support for large 
workspaces and working sets, and ensure that everything scales properly. 
[Platform Core; Platform UI]
Comment 1 Rafael Chaves CLA 2004-08-23 17:09:15 EDT 
Shouldn't this be in the Resources inbox?
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2004-12-07 09:54:55 EST 
The following document provides a more concrete set of proposed changes that
fall under the "large-scale workspaces" banner:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/3.1/large_scale_issues.html
Comment 3 Michael Scharf CLA 2004-12-17 15:06:54 EST 
Sharing Working Sets (bug 30687) would also be an important contribution to
scalability:

Big systems (with many projects) are often logically grouped. Working Sets are a
nice way to maintain and visualize this grouping. However, every developer has
to define the grouping manually in his workspace, because working sets cannot be
shared currently.

I would add set operations on working sets (union, intersection, difference), or
simple nesting: see also bug 37032 and bug 37389. This could be also helpful for
defining and managing sets of projects that have to be build (bug 60803).
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2004-12-20 10:28:39 EST 
Big users of working sets may be interested in the experimental working set
browsing capability in the package explorer in 3.1 M4.  Feedback on this is
welcome in bug 78701.

As a work-around, working sets can be shared by copying the file
workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workingsets.xml between
workspaces. Clearly this isn't a strong sharing solution, but I thought it was
worth mentioning.
Comment 5 John Arthorne CLA 2005-04-29 16:26:10 EDT 
Work on this plan item is completed for 3.1. Refer to the document in comment #2
for details on the work that was done. The main area where little work was done
is in the area of better working set support; a follow-on item may be added to
the 3.2 plan for work in this area.