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How to get the "real" name of a project [message #38302]

Mon, 19 May 2003 01:34

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: chambery.us.ibm.com

Hey all,

I'm trying to save the path of a file in the workspace in a project name
neutral way. For example: if the project name in CVS is "foo" and I
check it out as "foobar", then any references to files in the workspace
are led by "/foobar/...", which makes the reference invalid for other
team members with different names for the same project.

Is there a way to get the "real" name of a shared project?

Thanks,

Todd

Re: How to get the "real" name of a project [message #38369 is a reply to message #38302]

Mon, 19 May 2003 14:06

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.nos.pam.us.ibm.com

Why are you changing the name of the project? Paths are relative to the
workspace not the project, so you wind up with the name of the project
in the path. It is better to not change the name of the project. It is
also easier for everyone because then when you talk your team mates, you
are using the same names for everything.

Rich

Re: How to get the "real" name of a project [message #38466 is a reply to message #38369]

Mon, 19 May 2003 14:24

Eclipse User

I agree generally, but in my particular case, the project is name
org.zclipse.insectivore and when creating a project feature for
deployment, I had to change the name to ...insectivore_1.1.0 (I actually
don't know if I _had_ do this, but it didn't work with the generic name
and did work when I changed it). This caused all project-specific refs
to go bad.

I guess I'm assuming that because eclipse allows you to easily change
the name of a project with little impact to repository (and hence other
developers on the team) that there must be some separation between the
constant "id name" (for lack of a more appropriate term) of a project
and its display name.

Todd

Richard L. Kulp wrote:
> Why are you changing the name of the project? Paths are relative to the
> workspace not the project, so you wind up with the name of the project
> in the path. It is better to not change the name of the project. It is
> also easier for everyone because then when you talk your team mates, you
> are using the same names for everything.
>
> Rich
>

Re: How to get the "real" name of a project [message #38685 is a reply to message #38466]

Mon, 19 May 2003 17:38

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.nos.pam.us.ibm.com

You only need the _1.0.0 when actually deploying it as binary to
customers. You don't need your project to be that name during
development. Basically when creating the deployed plugin, your build
process should create a directory with _1.0.0 on it, and then put the
actual built files and jars under it.

If you are using the PDE build process it can do this for you
automatically, especially if you use the PDE feature process too.

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