[platform-vcm-dev] Watch/edit functionality.

["David O'Flanagan (CAPE)" <david.oflanagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am currently evaluating Eclipse and I'm quite eager to adopt it for the
next phase of our project. I've got a couple of questions/comments.

A strong requirement for us is the watch/edit functionality. It was
mentioned in the bug report
http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=21577 that there is experimental
support. How far along has this progressed?

The implementation (from the bug report) was to issue a CVS edit when the
user opens a resource. Is there a way to open a file/resource in an editor
without invoking the edit and (maybe) an email to a watcher?

My interpretation of this particular set of CVS commands is that it makes
the user explicitly edit a file (and possibly notify a watcher) so that
edits become more 'heavyweight'. This implementation seems to shield the
user from the 'edit' command.

Another concern would be although I am editing a particular file I may need
to view other files (interfaces, implementations, etc..) and opening these
files could trigger spurious emails to watchers.

Ideally I would like to always open a watched resource as read-only and then
contextually offer the user the following sets of menus:
1) edit/unedit/list editors
2) watch/unwatch/list watchers

Thanks,
Dave.