RE: [eclipse-dev] Workspace Restorer plug-in now availale

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It is a very good idea. I also have the following suggestions - 
1. Provide a UI to run the restorer or prompt the user to invoke it if
corruption is detected.
(Another option is to have a menu item "restart eclipse and restore
workspace" which will
do it). As an alternative, provide another executable. What (most
mortal) users hate, is to 
deal with obscure command line arguments...

2. I don't know whether CVS has any metadata, but if it has, 
an option to restore the CVS state of the files is a must. Once I had to
manually diff
about 1000 files after a workspace crash. Believe me, it is a nightmare.

3. This may be totally out of your control, but maybe having more data
saved in human readable
text files can reduce the risk of crash and reduce the complexity of
recovery. E.g., the default plugin preference store
is in a "java.util.preferences" like format, and is very easy to
recover. Resource properties are stored in a binary 
format (if I understand what I see), and are harder to recover.

Genady

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DJ Houghton
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:21 PM
> To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [eclipse-dev] Workspace Restorer plug-in now availale
> 
> 
> The first version of the Workspace Restorer plug-in is now 
> available from
> the Core team web page. Please post comments to
> platform-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx and enter bug reports against 
> Platform/Core.
> 
> README:
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platfo
rm-core-home/downloads/tools/readme_restorer_1.0.0.html

Download:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-ho
me/downloads/tools/org.eclipse.core.tools.restorer_1.0.0.zip

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