Eclipse Integration (was Re: Bazaar 1.0...)

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Tue Nov 13 15:37:42 GMT 2007


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Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:37 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>> Should we...
> 
> I had *another* client reject Bazaar this week due to the lack of mature
> Eclipse integration.
> 
> This isn't something that will be achieved piecemeal; the user
> experience there needs to be _polished_ and not haphazard, otherwise it
> reflects badly on Bazaar itself. Which is a shame, because I know some
> people are working hard on it, but it's not the sort of thing to get
> love from the core developers who are, after all, a Python mafia. :)

...

> For me the killer feature would be switching branches in an Eclipse
> aware way. Right now I use a *symlink* in ~/workspace to the place where
> I keep my branches. I have to "Close Project", rm symlink, create new
> symlink, re "Open Project", and then "Refresh" to change branches. Talk
> about a pain in the ass. [You have to do this because otherwise all the
> launcher configurations are for a specific path and are no-op if you try
> to do one-project-per-branch].

Well, this could also be done using checkouts and "bzr switch". (switch
may only support lightweight checkouts at the moment).

Though I'm not sure how to force Eclipse to properly refresh itself.

Personally, I find that Eclipse configures projects by path (and not by
say a file inside that path) to be rather annoying.

Maybe just integrating "switch" capability into the bzr-eclipse plugin?

John
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