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Re: [platform-vcm-dev] .vcm_meta file

The current behavior in the CVS plugin for reading/writing the .vcm_meta is temporary.

There is a proposal to reify the project description in a file, named ".project", in the root of each project's content area. The contents of the file would be a well-specified XML format, and contain Core project description information: project name, project description, list of project nature ids, list of required project names, and the project build spec. It will be generated by the Core component and Team plugins can simply treat it as a regular file that can be versioned.

Also note from the http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/eclipse_project_plan_2_0_rev0214.html 2.0 project plan that UI will be adding better support for configuring project natures a the user level.

Regards,

Jean-Michel



"Bryan Stephenson" <Bryan.Stephenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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In the 1.0 VCM  the .vcm_meta file maintained information about the project
nature and builders etc.   Under VCM 1.0 it was automatically generated on
the first synchronize so would be put under source control.  The necessity
for this file in the repository was to support the creation of workspace
projects from repository projects while maintaining the project natures.
There only appears to be support for the .vcm_meta file in the Team 2.0 CVS
implementation.   While the examples do not have a get from
source control operation, there is nothing top stop this being implemented.
If so, how is the maintenance of project natures handled or does this
"generic" operaqtion have to be coded per provider.


Bryan Stephenson      mailto:Bryan.Stephenson@xxxxxxxxxx





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