Re: [cdt-patch] Fixes for 43099, 43100, 42400, 42717

[Bogdan Gheorghe <gheorghe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

cdt-patch-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/26/2003 11:32:36
AM:

> Its seems to me that removing the .metadata is a bit heavy since I
> believe Eclipse will no longer know what are projects in your workspace
and
> will force everyone to re-create their entire workspace, wouldn't
just 
> removing the org.eclipse.cdt.core directory under .metadata/plugins
suffice?

You're absolutely right Dave - getting rid of org.eclipse.cdt.core
will do the trick.
> 
> Oh, and in the future (after release) we must be able to handle file
> format changes programaticly, as asking the user to delete 
> files/directorys in the
> .metadata is asking for trouble...

This true but given that we haven't released yet,
and that this indexer is going to 
be a new feature in 1.2 (ie. no backward compatability),
I didn't see the need to write
any upgrade code. Any future changes to indexer format
will be handled programatically.

Thanks,
Bogdan

> 
> Thanks
> Dave.
> 
> 
> Bogdan Gheorghe wrote:
> 
> >
> > This patch integrates the dependency calculator into the indexer.
As a 
> > result the underlying indexer file storage format has changes
so 
> > please delete the .metadata folder from your CDT workspace to
avoid 
> > having any weird results with search/code complete. Lots of detail
in 
> > the change logs of exactly what changed...
> >
> > This patch has been tested on Windows and Linux.
> >
> > 43099  -  Dep Tree Persistence
> > 43100 - Dep Tree/Indexer Concurrency Problem
> > 42400 - junit error on linux for indexer tests
> > 42717 - UI: Context menus for search
> >
> > - Bogdan
> >
> >
> <patch removed>
> 
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