Description Lachlan Deck 2007-04-25 19:57:14 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.